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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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(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause

35

Undismayed by lack of piano accompaniment, or now the peremptory rattle of the baton, this baying augmented as the apparition drew up at the footlights for breath.

—p.35 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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2 months ago

Undismayed by lack of piano accompaniment, or now the peremptory rattle of the baton, this baying augmented as the apparition drew up at the footlights for breath.

—p.35 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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2 months ago

(adverb) in a series / (adjective) following seriatim (Latin)

85

he light changed and released them across Broadway and down Wall in disheveled Indian file staggered seriatim

—p.85 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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he light changed and released them across Broadway and down Wall in disheveled Indian file staggered seriatim

—p.85 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial

87

But she’d sunk back on a leather bench, left the assault to their guide’s officious requests

—p.87 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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But she’d sunk back on a leather bench, left the assault to their guide’s officious requests

—p.87 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial

151

as beams of the police car swept them in an officious turn and sought the opening in the hedge.

—p.151 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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as beams of the police car swept them in an officious turn and sought the opening in the hedge.

—p.151 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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(noun) a shoe having the tongue and vamp cut in one piece and the quarters lapped over the vamp and laced together for closing / (biographical name) Gebhard Leberecht von 1742–1819 prince of Wahlstatt Pruss. field marshal

212

cornering with a dulled blucher a delicately striped and more delicately shaded hindquarter

wtf

—p.212 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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cornering with a dulled blucher a delicately striped and more delicately shaded hindquarter

wtf

—p.212 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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2 months ago

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

440

caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators

—p.440 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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caught a rise and fall of yellow skirting another stolid mass of blue toward the elevators

—p.440 J R (1) by William Gaddis
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