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pleonasm
ease up on academic pleonasms, e.g., "employ" vs. "use", "explicate" vs. "explain",
this just felt like the author jerking off about feedback he had gotten
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abjure
Abjuring friendship, Linda had plowed through the English major requirements in two years.
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sfumato
Like every day before, the weather was keen blue, dusty sunlight throwing a sfumato over everything.
if only the rest of the book had been written like this
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valorization
guys wearing T-shirts of the tech companies they worked for, or that guy wearing ... cat ears? Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation. Ecosystems needed predators. Yet San Francisco was nothing if not vegetarian.
kinda funny and not all that wrong
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