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

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expiate

What crime was she expiating?

—p.367 by Simone de Beauvoir
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irredentist

the dictator of the bantustan across the border that would someday like to engulf Botswana because they’re all Tswana after all, and there are five million of them under Mangope and only one million in Botswana. The Boers love Mangope’s irredentism and keep it pumped up.

—p.475 ABOUT THE FOREGOING (465) by Norman Rush
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clerisy

When I left the U.S. for Africa he was probably about even with Ivan Illich on the clerisy’s fame meter. The clerisy is a word I got from Nelson which turns out to be indispensable, like others of his.

briefly thought it meant the same as clergy lol

—p.469 ABOUT THE FOREGOING (465) by Norman Rush
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adventitious

I don’t know if this was deliberate protean behavior à la cornered jackrabbits or if it was simply adventitious.

—p.393 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush
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crescive

Meanwhile the issue of the night men was turning crescive without my noticing.

—p.388 STRIFE (355) by Norman Rush
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