Welcome to Bookmarker!

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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(Greek) spiritual or mental sloth; apathy; a state of listlessness or torpor

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

(adjective) expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty

(adjective) relating to or concerned with earning a living / (adjective) utilitarian practical

(noun) a group of unofficial often secret and scheming advisers / (noun) cabal

(adjective) of or relating to the underworld; infernal

atone for (guilt or sin)

(adjective) readily or easily broken

regarding something abstract as a material thing (fallaciously); an effect of reification

relating to stone and gems and the work involved in engraving, cutting, or polishing

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concept involving the placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination, as in "Tell me, how are you?"

(noun) a reversal of circumstances, or turning point; Anglicised form of the Greek "peripeteia"

(noun) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression / (noun) an instance of periphrasis

(noun) the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature

(noun) the performance of miracles / (noun) magic

(adj) exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks

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