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

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fey

gazing toward that full-blown flower whose fey petals curled and yellowed round its white spore-bearing carpel

—p.187 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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peremptory

it relapsed into the expression of intent vacancy which it had not lost, even in the interruption of surprise, a peremptory confusion which had seemed, for that instant, to empty it even further

—p.134 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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obstreperous

In front of the Bourse, a deaf-mute soccer team carried on conversation in obstreperous silence.

god this is so unexpectedly funny

—p.74 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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expiate

The sermons thundered at them from the pulpit of their peaceful church increased in violence, and embraced expiatory petitions to the Lord their God less and less frequently

—p.45 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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petrous

their petrous visages

i thought it meant something rock-like [petrified?] and i guess i was kinda right

—p.24 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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