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Hunger;<br />

• (malady)- any disorder or disease of the body, esp. one that is chronic or<br />

deep-seated,( ; ); She said that as his malady was attended by<br />

light-headedness, she had been directed to keep a close watch upon him<br />

during his illness—Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft;<br />

• (malaise)- a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often<br />

marking the onset of a disease, ( ; ); The cause of<br />

this malaise was a lethargic Legislature, where indolence cost less than<br />

mediocrity;<br />

insalubrious # salubrious ~ innocuous {innocent} ~ salutary ~ therapeutic =<br />

curative = remedial = sanatory<br />

• (salubrious)- favorable to or promoting health; healthful, (( )<br />

); Here the climate was salubrious, the land in many places fertile,<br />

and everywhere fit for sheep or cattle. — Impressions of South Africa;<br />

• (innocuous)- not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid;<br />

• not harmful or injurious; harmless, ( ; ); While ostensibly<br />

politically innocuous, they exert a subtle and cumulative influence on the<br />

numbed and dwindling minds of their spectators and readers. — After the<br />

Rain : how the West lost the East;<br />

• (innocent)- uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless; No object<br />

could well be more innocent, and more appealing in its innocence, than little<br />

Mr. Sweeting, curate of Nunnerly. — The Three Brontes;<br />

• (salutary)- favorable to or promoting health; healthful, (<br />

, ); The lessons of adversity are not always salutary--<br />

sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert. —<br />

Last Days of Pompeii;<br />

• (therapeutic)- of or pertaining to the treating or curing of disease;<br />

curative, ( - ); Disinterring memories that are buried<br />

deeply and festering can be therapeutic, too, but it's a more painful process<br />

and perhaps at times dangerous. — The Fifth Rapunzel;<br />

• (curative)- serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial<br />

treatment; remedial, ( - ); Such willingness to accept the<br />

inevitable is curative. — Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great;<br />

• (remedial)- supplying a remedy; But Mr. Gladstone's 'remedial manoeuvres'<br />

changed the country and the people. — The Reminiscences of an Irish Land<br />

Agent;<br />

• (sanatory)- conducive to health; healing; curing; His<br />

chief sanatory precaution was to take Albinia out for a drive or walk every

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