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

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limn

Reflection limning reflection in the mirrored walls of the bedroom

—p.340 by William Gaddis
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lugubrious

a lugubrious President announcing China’s most favoured nation status

—p.302 by William Gaddis
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meretricious

bees stung with desire by the meretricious scent of female bees

—p.297 by William Gaddis
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concupiscence

some special languorous glow which threw garage fellows, hotel pages, vacationists, goons in luxurious cars, maroon morons near blued pools, into fits of concupiscence which might have tickled my pride, had it not incensed my jealousy

—p.159 by Vladimir Nabokov
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supercilious

a lovely, lonely, supercilious grove (oaks, I thought; American trees at that stage were beyond me)

—p.140 by Vladimir Nabokov
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