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

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bulwark

The desk was massive, a bulwark against the creeping ignorance and imprecision of the world.

—p.97 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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jejune

He’d thought that not wearing a toga would make him seem too cool for such jejune festivities,

—p.70 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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peremptory

“Excuse me,” Alton said in a peremptory tone.

—p.55 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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salutary

She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.

—p.29 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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charnel

But as a matter of fact there was still the exploding lamp, the mother in her charnel wrappings, the staunch, bereft child.

—p.114 Family Furnishings (87) by Alice Munro
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