Why not eat insects?

                                   

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VOCABULARY:

Magnitude- n. Greatness of rank or position

That you could not tell the exact magnitude of the temporal displacement?

The magnitude of Cranston's discovery left Mileson weak.

Cochineal- n. A red dye made of the dried and pulverized bodies of female cochineal insects. It is used as a biological stain and as an indicator in acid-base titrations

I added a few drops of cochineal, which is a tasteless scarlet colouring matter.

After some thought Robert writes a series of messages on pieces of parchment made from seals' bladders, with ink obtained from cochineal insects.

 To proliferate- v. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.

Everything grows, swells, proliferates.

Like cancer cells, the original constituents of the universe proliferated without direction, a total panoply of newness.

Manure-n. Material, especially barnyard or stable dung, often with discarded animal bedding, used to fertilize soil.

The familiar scents of horse, straw, and manure filled my head.

Boswell and Johnson went and watered it with liquid manure.

 To malign- v. To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of.

That there was, indeed, some malign divinity in that hideous carcass!

Jasper's, who maligns him every day?

Shrimp-n. Any of various small, chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the suborder Natantia, many species of which are edible, having a compressed or elongated body with a well-developed abdomen, long legs and antennae, and a long spinelike projection of the carapace.

I just want to eat"' She sighed, as she speared a princess prawn on her fork.

Archie snuck in a quick prawn before the crab meat.

Crayfish- n. Any of various freshwater crustaceans of the genera Cambarus and Astacus, resembling a lobster but considerably smaller. Also called mudbug; also called regionally crawdad.

As he sank, he saw waving before him the gaping claws of the huge crayfish, large enough to sever a limb with one stroke of their jagged jaws.

The leeches and crayfish should have you stripped to the bone in a day or so.

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Something for those with  sweet teeth... :)