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

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stentorian

Cop, his arms stretched skyward, sang in a stentorious voice

—p.174 by Michel Houellebecq
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sybaritic

I had expected a more or less sumptuous meal, punctuated by sybaritic delights; I was quickly disillusioned. When it came to food, the prophet was a devotee of the greatest frugality

—p.163 by Michel Houellebecq
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concupiscence

based on the belief that concupiscence is a venal thing, scarcely important, unfit to turn man away from the path to salvation

—p.55 by Michel Houellebecq
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sobriquet

afflicted with the pleasing sobriquet of “Crabs from the Cunt of Mary.”

—p.41 by Michel Houellebecq
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demotic

Undoubtedly there used to be a form of demotic happiness, connected to the functioning of the whole, which we are no longer able to understand

—p.5 by Michel Houellebecq
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