scabrous
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(adjective) difficult knotty / (adjective) ; rough to the touch; as / (adjective) having small raised dots, scales, or points / (adjective) covered with raised, roughened, or unwholesome patches / (adjective) dealing with suggestive, indecent, or scandalous themes; salacious / (adjective) squalid
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This was a scabrous half-truth. Russ himself had originally proposed the name.
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This was a scabrous half-truth. Russ himself had originally proposed the name.
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lubricious
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(adjective) marked by wantonness; lecherous / (adjective) salacious / (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality
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Referring warmly to the Arizona trip, or more archly to the sensitivity training they did on Sunday nights, or more lubriciously to certain choice girls on the Crossroads roster
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Referring warmly to the Arizona trip, or more archly to the sensitivity training they did on Sunday nights, or more lubriciously to certain choice girls on the Crossroads roster
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invidious
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(adjective) tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy / (adjective) envious / (adjective) of an unpleasant or objectionable nature; obnoxious / (adjective) of a kind to cause harm or resentment
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Same thing with her long, straight, shining hair, which was of a richer color than the slightly false-seeming yellow of his own: she had the platonic teen-girl hair to which other girls compared their own invidiously
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Same thing with her long, straight, shining hair, which was of a richer color than the slightly false-seeming yellow of his own: she had the platonic teen-girl hair to which other girls compared their own invidiously
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puerile
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childishly silly and trivial
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sedulous
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(adjective) involving or accomplished with careful perseverance / (adjective) diligent in application or pursuit
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“Not necessarily. It isn’t hard to hide a drug habit if you’re sedulous about the protocols.”
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“Not necessarily. It isn’t hard to hide a drug habit if you’re sedulous about the protocols.”
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plangent
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loud, reverberating, and often melancholy
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Russ felt powerless against Wanda’s plangency
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Russ felt powerless against Wanda’s plangency
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rarefied
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(adjective) being less dense / (adjective) of, relating to, or interesting to a select group; esoteric / (adjective) very high / (verb) to make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand without the addition of matter / (verb) to make more spiritual, refined, or abstruse / (verb) to become less dense
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in the shimmering heat, the rarefied air, found that this made sense to him
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in the shimmering heat, the rarefied air, found that this made sense to him
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immanence
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philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world
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The truth was, he missed the mesa, the immanence of God in every rock, every bush, every insect
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The truth was, he missed the mesa, the immanence of God in every rock, every bush, every insect
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ambit
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(noun) the scope, extent, or bounds of something
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in her narrow Flagstaff ambit, with most of the country’s young men overseas, his apparition at Nativity had been as singular to her as hers was to him
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in her narrow Flagstaff ambit, with most of the country’s young men overseas, his apparition at Nativity had been as singular to her as hers was to him
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lambent
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(adjective) playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering / (adjective) softly bright or radiant / (adjective) marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression
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The speck was in his mind, and his mind was now lambent with rationality at all hours.
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The speck was in his mind, and his mind was now lambent with rationality at all hours.
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