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

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vade mecum

This is more or less the pedagogy laid out by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Émile, or On Education, the vade mecum of modern homeschooling

—p.124 Homeschool (121) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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dappled

I was hiking to the top of sun-dappled, bouldery cliffs

—p.97 Conversations with Bongjun (97) missing author
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paeans

I became an opinion columnist and an op-ed editor for the school newspaper, where I penned romantic paeans to the democratizing missions in Iraq and Afghanistan

—p.95 Base Culture (85) missing author
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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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