invidious
(en)
(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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the temptation, though, to unreel an invidious procession of mighty literary figures parading across the centuries
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the temptation, though, to unreel an invidious procession of mighty literary figures parading across the centuries
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villanelle
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(noun) a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain / (noun) a 16th century Italian part-song in an intentionally unsophisticated style / (noun) an instrumental piece in the style of a rustic dance
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Whosoever has allowed the villanelle to enter them or the sonnet.
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Whosoever has allowed the villanelle to enter them or the sonnet.
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lassitude
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(noun) a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue / (noun) a condition of listlessness; languor
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the moribund progress of their gross intellectual lassitude
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the moribund progress of their gross intellectual lassitude
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palaver
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(noun) a long parley usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication / (noun) conference discussion / (noun) idle talk / (noun) misleading or beguiling speech / (verb) to talk profusely or idly / (verb) parley / (verb) to use palaver to; cajole
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all that stupid palaver about "untapped potential"
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all that stupid palaver about "untapped potential"
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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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sneak such scabrousness in through the back door
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sneak such scabrousness in through the back door
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deracination
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(verb) uproot / (verb) to remove or separate from a native environment or culture / (verb) to remove the racial or ethnic characteristics or influences from
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in a society as deracinated and stripped of tradition and continuity
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in a society as deracinated and stripped of tradition and continuity
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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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They spend lambent, warm afternoons sequestered in quiet rooms.
on writers. god i love this word
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They spend lambent, warm afternoons sequestered in quiet rooms.
on writers. god i love this word
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rarefied
(en)
(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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this is an increasingly irrelevant and rarefied end, consigned to the specialists
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this is an increasingly irrelevant and rarefied end, consigned to the specialists
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aspic
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(noun) asp / (noun) a clear savory jelly (as of fish or meat stock) used as a garnish or to make a meat, fish, or vegetable mold
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without any uniformity as to time and place of dissemination to serve as communal aspic
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without any uniformity as to time and place of dissemination to serve as communal aspic
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augury
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(noun) divination from auspices or omens / noun) omen, portent
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ultimately serves as an augury of the way out
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ultimately serves as an augury of the way out
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