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cavalcade
(en)
a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles
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Other animals don’t require a whole cavalcade of concepts to warn them away from creatures that want to eat them
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Other animals don’t require a whole cavalcade of concepts to warn them away from creatures that want to eat them
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locution
(en)
(noun) a particular form of expression or a peculiarity of phrasing / (noun) a word or expression characteristic of a region, group, or cultural level / (noun) style of discourse; phraseology
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his arch locution is a latter-day fillip
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his arch locution is a latter-day fillip
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liminal
(en)
ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
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the wolf in this story is a liminal figure, an embodiment of some occult state in which binary conditions are impossibly, gruesomely conflated.
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the wolf in this story is a liminal figure, an embodiment of some occult state in which binary conditions are impossibly, gruesomely conflated.
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lugubrious
(en)
(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
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Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema
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Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema
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abjure
(en)
(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid
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What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles
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What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles
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insuperable
(en)
(adjective) incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved
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the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful
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the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful
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chiliastic
(en)
(adj) another term for millenarian (the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity)
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the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.
on the abolition of capital
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the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.
on the abolition of capital
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