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echt
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(adjective) true genuine
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Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate
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Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate
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chiasmus
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(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.
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Death, of course, is the ultimate containment; other, less final containments are conversely strategies toward genocide. Perfect chiasmus.
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Death, of course, is the ultimate containment; other, less final containments are conversely strategies toward genocide. Perfect chiasmus.
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coterminous
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(adjective) having the same or coincident boundaries / (adjective) coextensive in scope or duration
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As opposed to those of its global adversary, they contended, the interests of America were coterminous with the world’s interests.
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As opposed to those of its global adversary, they contended, the interests of America were coterminous with the world’s interests.
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meliorism
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(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
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Both parties had committed to the basic elements of what became “the American model.” At home, it involved a modest welfare state combined with meliorism on issues of race. Abroad, the goal was the reconstruction of foreign societies on American terms through the spread of market capitalism and the legal-political institutions of liberal democracy.
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Both parties had committed to the basic elements of what became “the American model.” At home, it involved a modest welfare state combined with meliorism on issues of race. Abroad, the goal was the reconstruction of foreign societies on American terms through the spread of market capitalism and the legal-political institutions of liberal democracy.
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encomium
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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.
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In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.
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homily
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(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons
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Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.
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Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.
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chary
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(adjective) dear treasured / (adjective) ; discreetly cautious; as / (adjective) hesitant and vigilant about dangers and risks / (adjective) slow to grant, accept, or expend
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Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government.
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Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government.
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declension
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(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope
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Embedded in Case and Deaton’s “narrative of deterioration,” then, is a narrative of racial declension. Poorer, non-college-educated black and Hispanics have suffered the same economic weakness without experiencing rising mortality and morbidity
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Embedded in Case and Deaton’s “narrative of deterioration,” then, is a narrative of racial declension. Poorer, non-college-educated black and Hispanics have suffered the same economic weakness without experiencing rising mortality and morbidity
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