Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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stolid

watched her stolid figure cross the boulevard towards the cafes.

i always think it means stout but i dont think it does

—p.97 Giovanni's Room (1) by James Baldwin
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louche

It was old enough to have a louche coolness but new enough to offer modernity and comfort without being intimidating.

—p.127 by Amy Key
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chiliastic

The very rigour of his environmental and mechanical materialism meant that he must either despair or proclaim a secular chiliasm.

—p.787 Class Consciousness (711) by E.P. Thompson
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celerity

The problem was to indoctrinate the youth in ‘habits of attention, celerity, and order’.

—p.780 Class Consciousness (711) by E.P. Thompson
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imprecate

It is sometimes less an argument than an affirmation, an imprecation, a leap of feeling.

—p.162 Planting the Liberty Tree (102) by E.P. Thompson
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