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speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock

1925–1995: French philosopher (has influenced literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism)

(adjective) smooth / (adjective) having a surface without hairs or projections

a bank sloping down from a fort which exposes attackers to the defenders' missiles

the Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues; instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s, beginning the democratization of the Soviet Union

(noun) a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale

(noun) twilight; dusk

(noun) a foliated metamorphic rock corresponding in composition to a feldspathic plutonic rock (as granite)

expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms

(noun) esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation

(noun) an employee whose duties include running errands; lackey

(noun) any of three snake-haired sisters in Greek mythology whose appearance turns the beholder to stone / (noun) an ugly or repulsive woman

(noun) a spiny yellow-flowered European shrub (Ulex europaeus) of the legume family / (noun) any of several related plants (genera Ulex and Genista)

The State Planning Committee (Gosplan) was the agency responsible for central economic planning (particularly five-year plans) in the Soviet Union

(noun) a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather / (noun) something light, delicate, or insubstantial / (adjective) extremely light, delicate, or tenuous

a journalistic nickname for New York City OR an English village, proverbial for the foolishness of its inhabitants.

derived from goy (Hebrew for nation); used as a superlative for Jewishness?

(adjective) pregnant / (adjective) distended with or full of eggs

a piece of armour that protects the leg

the excrement of seabirds and bats, used as fertilizer

(noun) dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible

(verb) make more attractive, especially in a showy or gimmicky way

referring to Frankfurt School sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas, best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere

relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

the ambivalence of love and hatred (a Lacanian concept)