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

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pallid

I’ve seen several small cities alone while he recovered in a hotel room, while he slept pallid in the bed, coated with sweat under the covers.

—p.24 by Jhumpa Lahiri
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puerile

But he’s never amounted to much, he remains puerile and full of complaints, in spite of his middle-aged man’s body.

—p.22 by Jhumpa Lahiri
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fulminate

The new light disorients, the fulminating nature overwhelms, and the air, dense with pollen, bothers my eyes

—p.14 by Jhumpa Lahiri
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ambit

The degree to which new cultural forms transfigured and expanded the ambit of politics itself was perhaps the dominating issue which possessed us

—p.241 by Stuart Hall
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catechism

His ‘test’ swept aside all the necessary ambivalence in play, reducing one’s allegiance to a sporting team to a catechism of national faith

—p.212 by Stuart Hall
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