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ver·sant

• The slope of a side of a mountain or mountain range.
• The general slope of a region.

Synonyms: mountainside.

Usage: The wildfire spread quickly and was soon threatening the conifer forests that covered the eastern versant.

References

• The Free Dictionary — versant
• Wordle — Versant

beau

• The boyfriend of a woman or girl.

Synonyms: boyfriend, fellow, swain, young man.

Usage: She appeared at the dance with her new beau.

References

• The Free Dictionary — beau
• Wordle — Beau

id·i·om

• A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements
• An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.

Synonyms: phrase.

Usage: The foreigner was utterly confused when his American host handed him an umbrella and told him it was “raining cats and dogs,” an idiom meaning that it is raining heavily.

References

• The Free Dictionary — idiom
• Wordle — Idiom

glut

• To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
• To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.

Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit.

Usage: There has been a glut of apples this year.

References

The Free Dictionary — glut
Wordle — Glut

• Something that sustains; a support.
• Sustenance.

Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep.

Usage: In her heart, as in his, there gnawed ever an all-devouring hunger to work land of their own, a fervent aspiration to establish a solid basis of self-sustentation upon which their children might build.

References

• The Free Dictionary — sustentation
• Wordle — Sustentation