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catechism

wrote long incoherent pages where I tried to destroy her, and all the catechism which had been laid into my skull by good Sister Rose came back to scathe the people I had known

—p.319 by Norman Mailer
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caterwauling

A caterwaul of laughter from the charade players made Crane wince humorously.

—p.243 by Norman Mailer
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pule

How the day’s first words set off physical alarms, a pule and fret, the resistance of living systems to racking work.

—p.53 by Don DeLillo
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hoary

Manhattan Beach is a pastiche of the hoary literary devices and plotlines of disability

—p.115 Manhattan Beach (101) by Alexander Moran
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aptronym

Dickens is one such nineteenth-century figure who particularly toys with aptronyms, such as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1843).

—p.86 A Visit from the Goon Squad (78) by Alexander Moran
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