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tdawg, 851 days ago

PUBLIC NOTES

Post impressions: It's a good story sometimes told in a highly pretentious style. Perhaps that was the manner in 1921, the use of obscure vocabulary and winding, unnatural prose. It seemed the later chapters always began with a page or two of very difficult prose, which later became more readable.
Alias The Lone Wolf
Friday, February 29, 2008
stridulation: shrill sound as made by a cricket
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Friday, February 29, 2008
deadlight: protective cover fitted over a porthole or window on a ship
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Friday, February 29, 2008
...fall he might not have suffered...: correct by deleting "not"
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
animadversion: criticism or censure
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
volute: a spiral scroll
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
matutinal: of or occurring in the morning
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
piquant: pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
iniquity: immoral or grossly unfair behavior
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Friday, February 22, 2008
palter: beat around the bush: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
involution: a turning or rolling inward or a diminishing of an organ in its vital power or size
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
imbroglio: a confused, often embarrassing, state of affairs
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
perspicuity: clearly expressed, easily understood
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
gammon: rubbish, nonsense
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
refulgent: shining brightly
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
anodyne: not likely to produce dissent or offense
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
panegyric: a public speech in praise of someone or something
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
discountenanced: refused to approve of
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
empressement: animated eagerness or friendliness
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
sybarite: a person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
palter: equivocate or perviracate in action or speech
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
undissembled: not concealing one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Dumont: should be Dupont
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Friday, February 8, 2008
inimical: unfriendly, hostile
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Friday, February 8, 2008
supererogation: the performance of more work than duty requires
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Monday, February 4, 2008
inchoate: just begun and so not not fully formed or developed
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
vinous: of, resembking, or associated with a vine
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Friday, February 1, 2008
fatuous: silly and pointless
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Friday, February 1, 2008
bedizened: dressed up or decorated gaudily
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Friday, February 1, 2008
artifice: clever or cunning devices esp. as used to deceive
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Friday, February 1, 2008
phlegmatic: unemotional and stolidly calm
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
concupiscent: filled with sexual desire, lustful
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
odalisques: female slaves or concubines in a harem
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Blague: a joke or piece of nonsense
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
premonitory: feeling something unpleasant is about to happen
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
iniquity: immoral or grossly unfair behavior
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
didactic: intended to teach
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
cynosure: a person or thing that is the center of attention
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
convenable: assemble or cause to assemble for a common purpose
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
yashmaks: a veil concealing all of the face except the eyes
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
captiousness: tending to find fault or raise petty objections
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
coruscant: glittering, sparkling
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
duenna: an older woman acting as governess, chaperone
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
oblation: a thing presented or offered to God
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
loured: variant spelling of lowered
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
crepuscular: resembling or relating to twilight
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
soignee: dressed very elegantly, well groomed
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Monday, January 21, 2008
chiaroscuro: an effect of light and shadow
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Monday, January 21, 2008
declivitous: sloping down
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Monday, January 21, 2008
No good deed ...: No good deed goes unpunished, as has been said
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Monday, January 21, 2008

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