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

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peremptory

They were silent and attentive while he put the glasses back on, and said, peremptorily, —Come with me, I’ve got something to show you

—p.664 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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abeyance

they stood side by side, sustaining a perilous abeyance between them, and weighing the room before them in the balance

—p.656 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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asperities

And I might say, he added with slight asperity, —it’s not entirely a pose.

—p.651 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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stolid

Mr. Inononu stood a stolid five feet and four inches from the ground

—p.648 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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limicolous

The critic approached, moving with the steps of one in a familiar medium, disdaining claims of time past and future, both contained in this limicolous present.

—p.626 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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