What's the difference between fiery and peppery?

Fiery


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
  • (a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
  • (a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
  • (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
  • (a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
  • (2) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
  • (3) The oral lesion is a fiery red, flat or micropapillary-appearing mucosa most frequently involving the gingiva and hard palate.
  • (4) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
  • (5) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
  • (6) Inler also has a fiery side and it is a surprise to learn that it has been curbed, rather than forged, in a Neapolitan boxing ring.
  • (7) Plans to ramp up the US military presence in the area would probably involve flying over and sailing close to artificial islands that were only reefs before the latest building project, and China last week issued multiple warnings to a US plane flying above Fiery Cross reef, where China has built an early-warning radar station and airstrip.
  • (8) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
  • (9) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
  • (10) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
  • (11) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
  • (12) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
  • (13) The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition.
  • (14) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
  • (15) When the fiery Carla turns up unexpectedly from his past, Robert must choose between convention and the fraught path of love and freedom.
  • (16) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.
  • (17) (You can turn on the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, CNN or – by now – the History Channel and see a show ranking the world's best sandwiches, all without leaving the continental United States, followed by a nauseating closeup of Guy Fieri's Baconated Hamapeño Chipotle-Chicken Despair Ziggurat.)
  • (18) Tadic was denied by a solid Koubek save after a neat exchange with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the 52nd minute and the best the visitors could muster was a fiery mid-range effort from Lafata that Fraser Forster got a strong hand behind to force away.
  • (19) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
  • (20) He had a fiery temperament, which you may not know if you haven't played for him, if you've only watched him on TV.

Peppery


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
  • (a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A plate of plump, pan-fried gnocchi with peppery, spicy ground pork was simple but full of good, accurate flavours.
  • (2) Each afternoon, dishes such as warm salad of potato, fried egg and Clonakilty black and white pudding; spaghetti carbonara; porcini risotto; or peppery, perfumed pastrami with remoulade and pieces of what resembled XXL melba toast, are all knocked out at £6.50.
  • (3) A sip of rum, and gingery, peppery foods, are consumed, too.
  • (4) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
  • (5) It's a plate of grilled octopus, gorgeously aromatic and peppery, chopped into discs.
  • (6) The symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, an oral burning sensation or peppery taste, hives, itching, red rash, and hypotension.
  • (7) In addition, it marked intrafusal muscle fibres with a peppery silver deposit while sparing extrafusal fibres.
  • (8) At my granny's, there were spring greens, soft and peppery.
  • (9) A sample plate of steak and mushroom stroganoff from the specials board was rich and creamy and broadly delivered: an earthy, mushroomy meatiness and, in the sauce, sweet, fruity paprika flavours and a certain peppery fizzle.
  • (10) Basically, it does what it says on the tin; it's spicy, it's peppery, it's sour, as you would expect of a Belgian beer, but it's also got all those tropical flavours jostling around in there.
  • (11) With its aniseedy, liquoricey punch, its slight pepperiness and its hints of pine, tarragon is not something to use with a heavy hand, but in the right quantities and the right company, it can be sublime.
  • (12) The fish implicated in one outbreak was noted to have a peppery taste.
  • (13) Add some red onion, spring onion or chives to this recipe, if you like; parsley and peppery radishes are also good additions.
  • (14) Its peppery taste seems to wake our sleepy bodies from winter, reviving the tastebuds, while the citrus dressing provides a zesty companion.
  • (15) The unha de caranguejo , shredded crab meat (£1) with a peppery yellow sauce, is popular.
  • (16) Funky and peppery – a mini Châteauneuf with real class.
  • (17) We proposed that the impairments were caused by loss of certain spatial frequency and orientation information but rejected an interpretation based on the concept of processing channels in favour of one based on object contour masking by a peppery field defect caused by disseminated lesions.
  • (18) Crucially, he explained: “We do not add anything to our oil, not do we take anything away, therefore the taste is solely dependent on meteorological events of the growing season and the timing of the harvest.” The premium oil, which should be used cold for dipping and in dressings and described as “highly fragrant and spicy” with a peppery taste, is stocked in farmers’ markets and delicatessens including Bayleys and Sage , Italo, La Fromagerie and Cowdray Farm Shop .

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