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

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polysemous

translating one of Prynne’s poems involves committing to particular definitions of words that are intentionally polysemic

—p.89 That Room in Cambridge (73) by Emily Witt
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tergiversation

No doubt almost any consistent economic policy and stable form of government would have served Argentina better between World War II and the Falklands debacle than constant, bloody tergiversation

i can't believe this is a word holy shit

—p.64 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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apotheosis

Three years earlier his second wife, Eva Perón, a former actress and an impassioned champion of the working class, had succumbed to cancer and been apotheosized as a martyr of the laboring poor.

—p.62 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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encomium

Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.

—p.57 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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abjure

the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession

—p.57 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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