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- Lambaste – beat, thrash verbally or physically
- Lap – take in food or drink with one’s tongue, splash gently
- Larceny – theft
- Larder – pantry, place where food is kept
- Lassitude – lack of energy, lethargy
- Latitude – Freedom from narrow limitations
- Lax – careless
- Lechery – lust
- Licentious – lacking in moral restraint, dissipated
- Lethal – deadly
- Libertine – playboy, lustful
- Limpid – clear, transparent
- Lionize – treat as a celebrity
- Listless – lack in spirit or energy
- Livid – angry, furious
- Loath – reluctant, unwilling
- Loathe – detest, hate
- Lout – clumsy person
- Lucre – money
- Lugubrious – sad, gloomy
- Lurid – wild, gruesome
- Lurk – hide, conceal oneself
- Lackadaisical – lacking interest or effort, lacking purpose or zest
- Laggard – slow, sluggish
- Lampoon – ridicule
- Languor – lack of physical or mental energy
- Leeway – room to move, margin
