So Called Fifth Taste

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	noun • One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
	26%	6		Fifth taste sensation
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	26%	5		"Intelligence ... is really a kind of taste -- taste in ___": Susan Sontag
	noun • the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about • your intention; what you intend to do • a personal view • an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth • (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

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