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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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protean

An uneasiness, a dangerous ill temper escalated among soldiers, workers, and, most dramatically, peasants. For the most part it did not, yet, take explicitly politicised forms, but it was protean, destructive and very often violent.

—p.132 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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contumely

When Martov attempted to speak from the platform, the audience howled contumely on him

—p.131 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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inveterate

His maverick theories, bitter and brutal polemics, abrasive personality and inveterate contrariness

Trotsky

—p.128 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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desiderata

Some of these desiderata might have sounded unacceptably radical to the guardians of bourgeois order imploring the Soviet to join them in ruling, but in fact these conditions were obligingly elastic, their time frames long, often indeterminate

—p.127 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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