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meretricious

a forgotten poet who wrote bad, meretricious verse at some time

—p.133 My Life (131) by Anton Chekhov
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quondam

After a complicated choreography of alliances and conspiracies, Napoleon’s quondam nephew Louis Bonaparte was elected president by a rural majority

—p.168 Marx’s Lost Theory: The Politics of Nationalism in 1848 (155) by Mike Davis
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latifundian

The same pattern of “agglomerated villages” (actually large towns in many cases) characterized the latifundian societies of Andalusia and Apulia, both bastions of anarcho-syndicalism.

—p.132 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
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littoral

Thus, in the case of Los Angeles—and in fact all the cities of the Pacific littoral from Seattle to Valparaiso to Yokohama—the ultimate battleground against the open shop was the harbor

i thought this meant like religious chant huh

—p.117 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
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congeries

A large plant was often a fractious congeries that recapitulated the ethnic and geographical rivalries of the larger society.

—p.48 Old Gods, New Enigmas: Notes on Revolutionary Agency (1) by Mike Davis
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