Heat

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ablaze, afire, ardent, bake, bask, blaze, blood-hot, boil, broil, calefaction, calidity, canicular, calorify, chafe, char, close, combustible, desire, diaphoretic, dog days, ebullient, enflame, enkindle, estiferous, excitement, ferocity, fervor, fever, fieriness, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, fury, glow, grill, grow hot, heatwave, HOT, hot spell, hot weather, hot as pepper, ignite, incalescence, incandescence, incinerate, inflame, intensity, kindle, melt, molten, on fire, oppressive, oxidate, passion, perspire, piping hot, plutonic, rage, roast, scald, scorch, scumfished, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smoking, smoldering, sodden, steam, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultriness, sun, swelter, tepefy, toast, torrid, torridity, warmth, white-hot

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