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[TOR-id] 
1. parched with heat, especially from the sun; scorched
2. intensely hot; burning: "Clara had fallen asleep under the soft light of the early morning, but she woke up under the torrid noonday sun."
3. full of passion; ardent; 'torrid love letters'
4. rapid; 'a torrid pace'
noun forms: torridity, torridness
adverb form: torridly
Origin:
Approximately 1611; from Latin, 'torridus': dried with heat, from 'torrere': to parch. In action:
"Although the new film is based on producer/choreographer Sarah Green's remembrances of her teen years in Havana, the plot is essentially the same as the original. A well-heeled lass learns the ways of the dance floor and the boudoir from a working class hunk, while the world around them is going through its own changes.
Director Guy Ferland (TV's 'ED') had the relatively easy task of setting a proven story to a Latin-pop beat, yet he botches the job to the point of unintentional comedy. The salsa routines are fittingly sultry, but not nearly torrid enough to redeem the leaden dialogue and labored emoting that surround them."
Lisa Rose. "'Dirty Dancing': Catskills, s�! Cuba, no!" New Jersey Star-Ledger (February 27, 2004).
"Astonishingly, even a three-month period of torrid economic growth didn't boost jobs. From July through September, when economic output grew at an 8.2 percent annual rate, the fastest pace in two decades, payrolls actually shrank by 3,000 jobs."
Sam Zuckerman. "'Jobless recovery' a result of business caution after recession," The San Francisco Chronicle (March 1, 2004).
"Sales of million-dollar homes in California surged nearly 40 percent last year as the state's torrid housing market propelled home prices higher and buyers took advantage of low interest rates to move up the housing ladder, according to a report on Friday."
"Calif. sales of $1 mln-homes set record in 2003," Reuters (February 27, 2004).
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