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The vocabulary of David Foster Wallace

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adit
n
an entrance or a passage.
aleatory
of or pertaining to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable.
atony
lack of tone or energy; muscular weakness.
bibulous
a
fond of or addicted to drink.
clastic
a
breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts.
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corvine
a
pertaining to or resembling a crow.
cunctation
n
delay; tardiness.
debouch
to emerge from a relatively narrow valley upon an open plain.
esurient
a
hungry; greedy.
etiolate
vo
to cause to become weakened or sickly; drain of color or vigor.
fluvial
of or pertaining to a river.
gnosis
n
knowledge of spiritual matters; mystical knowledge.
indurate
vo
to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.
invidious
offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious.
litotes
understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."
mantic
a
of or pertaining to divination.
mercer
n
a dealer in textile fabrics; dry-goods merchant.
niddering
n
a coward.
officinal
a
kept in stock by apothecaries, as a drug.
oscitancy
a
yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
pilose
a
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
pleach
vo
to interweave (branches, vines, etc.), as for a hedge or arbor.
relict
n
a widow.
volar
a
of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
votary
n
a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.

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