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

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echt

A barrage of claps, and a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me

—p.104 Improvisation Is the Heart of Music (103) by Helen DeWitt
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aleatory

The robot pointed out pleasantly, dispassionately, that it would, certainly, be political suicide for a legislator to attempt to introduce an aleatory element into the allocation of minors

—p.35 My Heart Belongs to Bertie (25) by Helen DeWitt
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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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