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Adulation: Unwarranted overpraising & (servile) flattery

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Benighted: "Plunged into darkness," overtaken by night

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Cogitate: To think/consider carefully or to ponder

Coruscate: "To give forth flashes of light"

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Fulsome: "Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise;" insincere earnestness

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Hamartia: "Literally 'fault, failure, guilt, sin' from hamartanein "to fail of one's purpose; to err, sin," originally "to miss the mark,""

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Ineluctable: Inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable

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Lazarus taxon: "[I]n conservation biology and ecology, it can refer to species or populations that were mistakenly thought to be extinct, and are rediscovered to be still living;" my thylacine hopes

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Nescience: Ignorance & agnosticism

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Palimpsest: "A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely scraped off or erased and often legible;" Me & Michael

Privation: State of deprivation & lacking, to lack basic necessities

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