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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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turgid
Both Flesh and Not: Essays

it looms large in turgid crap like "Law-enforcement personnel apprehended the individual as he was attempting to exit the premises"

on "individual" being used as a synonym for "person"

—p.274 Twenty-Four Word Notes (261) by David Foster Wallace
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effete

a great many educated people accept effete now also as a pejorative synonym for elite or elitist, one with an added suggestion of effeminacy, over-refinement, pretension, and/or decadence

he notes the traditional meaning as "depleted of vitality, washed out, exhausted"

—p.266 Twenty-Four Word Notes (261) by David Foster Wallace
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enjambment

stuff like line breaks, enjambment, formal rhyme- or metrical schemes, etc

on the definition of a prose poem (i.e., based on what it lacks)

—p.253 The Best of the Prose Poem (243) by David Foster Wallace
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repetend

heavy-handed use of anaphora, ploce, repetend, and/or alliteration

—p.251 The Best of the Prose Poem (243) by David Foster Wallace
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ploce

heavy-handed use of anaphora, ploce, repetend, and/or alliteration

I knew it was a literary term but had no idea which

—p.251 The Best of the Prose Poem (243) by David Foster Wallace
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