Today’s Words That Work: Gustatory

Gustatory (GUS-tuh-tor-ee) – from the Latin – pertains to the sense of taste.

Example (as used by Stuart Stevens in Feeding Frenzy ): “I seemed to be drawn to countries with the worst food imaginable, places like Turkistan and Africa, where every day you woke up hoping you could avoid gustatory terror but knowing that before you slept again, horrible things would be going inside your mouth. The best strategy was simply to try to eat as little as possible. But I seemed cursed by an ever hopeful palate. ‘Termites? Termite larva? Could be interesting. I’ll try a handful.’ This was never a good idea.”