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

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paterfamilias

He was born in one of its North Shore suburbs; he was raised, reached adulthood, and became a paterfamilias as a “typical suburbanite.”

—p.688 Book Nine: Second Chance (688) by Studs Terkel
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dross

A perverse alchemy is at work: the gold that may be found in their unexamined lives is transmuted into the dross of banal being.

—p.xxix Introduction (xiii) by Studs Terkel
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homily

An American President is fortunate—or, perhaps, unfortunate—that, offering his Labor Day homily

—p.xv Introduction (xiii) by Studs Terkel
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abjure

It is middle-class European Americans who currently abjure the use of spankings and who favor instead the use of time-outs.

—p.294 by Judith Rich Harris
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