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peremptory
In the Shadow of the Yali

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, 11 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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epicede
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The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing

—p.836 The Part About Archimboldi (635) by Roberto Bolaño
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threnodic

The trip was a threnody or an epicede, depending on the countryside through which they were passing

—p.836 The Part About Archimboldi (635) by Roberto Bolaño
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