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penury
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(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality
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Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past
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Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past
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sundered
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(verb) to break apart or in two; separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space / (verb) to become parted, disunited, or severed
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The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves
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The words on that sutured, sundered book of leaves
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I've met privileged young people who were shocked when they discovered the destructive force of injustice in the lives of others around them. Some left their careers to work for human rights or to teach or to tend the damaged. Many lives have a moment of rupture that is an awakening and a change of direction. [...]
some examples she gives: Che Guevara meeting the miner and his wife, and the story of the Buddha
I've met privileged young people who were shocked when they discovered the destructive force of injustice in the lives of others around them. Some left their careers to work for human rights or to teach or to tend the damaged. Many lives have a moment of rupture that is an awakening and a change of direction. [...]
some examples she gives: Che Guevara meeting the miner and his wife, and the story of the Buddha
extirpate
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(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery
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rather than extirpating the external causes of pain
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rather than extirpating the external causes of pain
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