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

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frisson

it gave me an indescribable frisson to cock a snook at the official channels

—p.421 by Helen DeWitt
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pusillanimity

Not to mention the pusillanimity of the partnership de nos jours which meanly settles for a suit where it has found a fit rather than moving on to explore uncharted waters

—p.405 by Helen DeWitt
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supererogation

if it is prized in people who have to do it surely it would be a supererogatory virtue in someone who wasn’t even married.

—p.231 by Helen DeWitt
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declension

I had not planned to give him a whole declension on the first day as I knew very well what Mr. Ma would think.

—p.141 by Helen DeWitt
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demotic

Being written in hieroglyphics, demotic and Greek, it only required that one language survive for all to be accessible

—p.65 by Helen DeWitt
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