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epicurean
Gravity's Rainbow

vomited there by this or that sensitive epicurean

—p.6 by Thomas Pynchon
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calumny
In the Shadow of the Yali

To stay with him would be to accept his calumnies.

—p.300 by Suat Derviş
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peremptory

But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?

i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc

—p.184 by Suat Derviş
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You added a vocabulary term
3 years, 9 months ago

peremptory

But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?

i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc

—p.184 by Suat Derviş
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parvenu

No one could call him a parvenu. No one could dismiss him as just another entrepreneur.

—p.76 by Suat Derviş
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