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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Intensely desirous or interested: agog, athirst, avid, bursting, eager, impatient, keen1, solicitous, thirsting, thirsty. Informal : raring. Idioms: champing at the bit, ready and willing. See CONCERN. 2. Showing or having enthusiasm: enthusiastic, fervent, keen1, mad, rabid, warm, zealous. Informal : crazy. Slang : gung ho, nuts. See CONCERN. 3. Marked by much heat: baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, fiery, heated, hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid. See HOT. 4. Fired with intense feeling: blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. See FEELINGS.
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