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

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badinage

Jim had ordered something or other. He had exchanged badinage with the waitress.

—p.28 My Heart Belongs to Bertie (25) by Helen DeWitt
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baleful

It hung on its hanger, this baleful garment that no one would ever wear because of the hatefulness of the cloth and the cut and the straps and the stitching

—p.6 Brutto (3) by Helen DeWitt
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tendentious

What is rational cannot, if one takes rationality as a standard seriously, be just a tendentious synonym for what is good for her.

—p.88 The Best Book of the Forty-Fifth Century (74) by Lee Konstantinou
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autotelic

Autotelic education requires, in her view, a radical transformation of our cultural institutions, social expectations, and economic lives.

—p.16 A Little Potboiler (1) by Lee Konstantinou
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palaver

a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers

—p.133 Russian Portraits (127) missing author
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