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

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epigone

Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, and their many epigones were, very pointedly and precisely, not the left but assumed as a matter of course that they would retain the loyalty of the traditional left

—p.85 A Different Class (78) missing author
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bathos

The right’s full-on moral panic over Ocasio-Cortez’s allegedly spurious working-class identity reached a bathetic crescendo in January

—p.82 A Different Class (78) missing author
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insalubrious

raised in genuinely insalubrious circumstances

—p.81 A Different Class (78) missing author
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pecuniary

he, too, has put pecuniary oceans between himself and his socioeconomic origins via a long and lucrative tour in investment banking

i like this. example of a use of an unexpected adjective in a metaphor

[should we be able to tag specific quotes? and not just words?]

—p.80 A Different Class (78) missing author
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cavalcade

the rich cavalcade of class fantasias kicked up by this bizarre presidency

—p.80 A Different Class (78) missing author
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