echt
(en)
(adjective) true genuine
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There was no echt Sadie in this view, he decided. She looked indistinguishable from any number of smart, well-maintained college girls in the train station.
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There was no echt Sadie in this view, he decided. She looked indistinguishable from any number of smart, well-maintained college girls in the train station.
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weltschmerz
(en)
a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness; coined by German author Jean Paul
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There was a pleasant Weltschmerz that came over him.
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There was a pleasant Weltschmerz that came over him.
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palimpsest
(en)
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
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the board was empty aside from a hazy pastel palimpsest to remind them of the work they had done.
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the board was empty aside from a hazy pastel palimpsest to remind them of the work they had done.
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stygian
(en)
(adjective) extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding; refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology;
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she and Sam made their way down a Stygian stretch of Amsterdam Avenue
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she and Sam made their way down a Stygian stretch of Amsterdam Avenue
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deictic
(en)
(adjective) showing or pointing out directly / Deictic terms are words whose meaning shifts depending on the point of view of the speaker
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Soon, you will not be you. You, like all of us, are a deictic case.
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Soon, you will not be you. You, like all of us, are a deictic case.
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jejune
(en)
(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial
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A yearbook signing table. Sam thought it sounded jejune. “People love being jejune,” the party planner assured him.
i always thought this meant morelike 'juvenile' soi guess im kinda wrong
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A yearbook signing table. Sam thought it sounded jejune. “People love being jejune,” the party planner assured him.
i always thought this meant morelike 'juvenile' soi guess im kinda wrong
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dervish
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(noun) a member of a Muslim religious order noted for devotional exercises (as bodily movements leading to a trance) / (noun) one that whirls or dances with or as if with the abandonment of a dervish
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she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity? Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.
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she had been a dervish of selfishness, resentment, and insecurity? Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.
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