slake SLAYK, transitive verb:
1. To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
2. To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger.
3. To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water.

intransitive verb:
To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

Slake comes from Middle English slaken, “to become or render slack,” hence “to abate,” from Old English slacian, from slæc, “slack.”

“My companions never drink pure water and the… beer serves as much to slake their thirst as to fill their stomachs and lubricate conversation.”
–Philippe Descola, The Spears of Twilight

ambisinister am-bi-SIN-uh-stuhr adjective

Clumsy with both hands. (Literally, with two left hands.)

Latin ambi- both, + sinister, on the left side.