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Abjection: To bring down & humble or to reject & cast out; degredation or downcast state

Accretion: "Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion; the growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate. "

Adulation: Unwarranted overpraising & (servile) flattery

Anodyne: Soothing, assuaging, eliminating pain

B

Benighted: "Plunged into darkness," overtaken by night

Birdlime: "A sticky substance that is smeared on branches or twigs to capture small birds."

C

Cogitate: To think/consider carefully or to ponder

Concomitant: Existing concurrently (adjective or noun)

Coruscate: "To give forth flashes of light"

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E

Expurgate: To rid of obscenities or vulgarity, especially of a book before publication

F

Forestall: Prevent something from happening

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,""

I

Ineluctable: Inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable

Inveterate: Deeply rooted, long-established, chronic/habitual

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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

Lordosis: Spinal curvature

M

Meritorious: Deserving of merit

N

Nescience: Ignorance & agnosticism

O

Oneric: Pertaining to dreams, dreamlike

P

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

Promulgate: To make known through declaration

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R

Redolent: Suggestive; reminiscent (like the odor of something)

S

Spume: Frothfoam (like in my chest)

"The little 16 oz. will be rolling about among my personal effects during the cross-country drive next week, gathering carbonation-spume-potential-energy till it resembles a corked champagne. "

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Vainglory: Unwarranted pride

Venial: "Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable."

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