berm
(en)
(noun) a narrow shelf, path, or ledge typically at the top or bottom of a slope / (noun) a mound or wall of earth or sand / (noun) the shoulder of a road
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Beyond the berm were disused rail tracks
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Beyond the berm were disused rail tracks
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glasnost
(en)
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
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Meanwhile in Russia there was glasnost, there was Gorby. The true-believing little Republic, feeling betrayed by its Sovet father, cracked down harder on its own dissidents.
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Meanwhile in Russia there was glasnost, there was Gorby. The true-believing little Republic, feeling betrayed by its Sovet father, cracked down harder on its own dissidents.
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egress
(en)
the action of going out of or leaving a place
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doing the egress paperwork on the mock B61
opposite of ingress
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doing the egress paperwork on the mock B61
opposite of ingress
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sybaritic
(en)
fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent (derives from the Greek city Sybaris)
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Their unscheduled freedom on the weekend seemed sybaritic in comparison.
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Their unscheduled freedom on the weekend seemed sybaritic in comparison.
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orgone
(en)
(noun) a vital energy held to pervade nature and be a factor in health in the theories of Wilhelm Reich
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returning with younger women who helped him channel his orgone energy into the farm's rocky soil
referring to a man who followed Wilhelm Reich's theories
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returning with younger women who helped him channel his orgone energy into the farm's rocky soil
referring to a man who followed Wilhelm Reich's theories
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flocculence
(en)
flakiness; containing or made up of small particles that have been aggregated
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The New Jersey sky was a low-hanging steambath of churning flocculence
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The New Jersey sky was a low-hanging steambath of churning flocculence
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distaff
(en)
(noun) a staff for holding the flax, tow, or wool in spinning OR relating to women
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uncomfortably weighted against the distaff
I assume in this case it means: weighted against the woman (i.e., Anabel)
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uncomfortably weighted against the distaff
I assume in this case it means: weighted against the woman (i.e., Anabel)
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jeroboam
(en)
(noun) an oversize wine bottle holding about three liters
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expiate
(en)
atone for (guilt or sin)
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remained behind to expiate the country's collective guilt
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remained behind to expiate the country's collective guilt
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penumbra
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the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object
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I was still in a penumbra of inurement to death
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I was still in a penumbra of inurement to death
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