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sedulous

“Not necessarily. It isn’t hard to hide a drug habit if you’re sedulous about the protocols.”

—p.294 by Jonathan Franzen
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puerile

The whole notion of coolness was puerile.

—p.117 by Jonathan Franzen
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invidious

Same thing with her long, straight, shining hair, which was of a richer color than the slightly false-seeming yellow of his own: she had the platonic teen-girl hair to which other girls compared their own invidiously

—p.34 by Jonathan Franzen
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lubricious

Referring warmly to the Arizona trip, or more archly to the sensitivity training they did on Sunday nights, or more lubriciously to certain choice girls on the Crossroads roster

—p.29 by Jonathan Franzen
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scabrous

This was a scabrous half-truth. Russ himself had originally proposed the name.

—p.11 by Jonathan Franzen
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