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

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mawkish

If the war involved any dignity, it is not deserving of an American audience that will make instantaneous patriotic sap from it. The mawkish standard requires pushback.

—p.89 Base Culture (85) missing author
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agitprop

according to the agitprop or many of our own self-rationalizations, this was precisely what we had volunteered for

—p.88 Base Culture (85) missing author
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supercilious

Perhaps the superciliousness of some of my peers was related to this underlying fear.

—p.88 Base Culture (85) missing author
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trundle

cheap portable irons or rechargeable Bluetooth headphones. More trundled through the Walmart Supercenter of Yucca Valley

—p.86 Base Culture (85) missing author
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paucity

A paucity of private jokes indicates an uncool person, somebody who did not have enough friends, or whose friends did not have enough forbidden adventures, to build up that dense thicket of secret memories.

—p.80 Everybody Knows (63) by Elizabeth Schambelan
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