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scorching

adjective as in very hot

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adjective as in harsh

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Mr. Järvi led a scorching performance, with the orchestra and both choruses gratifyingly unconstrained.

Lee has been the unofficial poet laureate of Brooklyn for nearly four decades, since Do the Right Thing introduced the world to a block of Bedford-Stuyvesant on a scorching summer day.

At a sauna in Peckham, south London, young professionals sit on scorching hot, wood-panelled benches, dressed in swimming trunks and bathing suits.

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At a second location further west, workers are busy drilling a dozen more wells in the scorching sun.

Playing in the desert during the scorching summer months had been a tough sell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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