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solicitude
care or concern
oleaginous
oily or greasy
turpitude
wickedness, depravity
somnambulant
sleepwalking
pyrrhic
victory won at too greater cost for the victor
“Hubris—that
excessive pride or self confidence
opined,
ones opinion
fifty-calibre bullet travelling at 2,700 feet per second.
rill
small stream
assuaged
made feelings less intense
detritus
waste or debris
peripatetic
travelling from place to place
egregious
outstandingly bad
metastasise.
spread
etiolated,
pale and drawn out due to lack of light
clavicle
clavicle
insouciant
lack of concern
scarified
make cuts or scratches
peripatetic
traveling from place to place
euphemism—“I’m
mild word too replace a harsh one
invective
abusive
gloaming,
twilight, dusk
crenulated
outline or edge
miasma.
horrible smell
supine,
lying face upward
insensately,
lacking physical sensation
ululation
howl or wail
metastasizing
spread
vertiginous
extremely high or steep
ennui
listless and dissatisfaction
oleaginous
oily or greasy
GCHQ
Government Communications Headquarters
petabytes
million gegabytes
inculcated
instilled in
inured
accustomed to something unpleasan5
subsumed
include or absorb
and it had been so quiet, he thought, that you could damn near hear your own hair grow.
“That you’re a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.”
The American Drug Enforcement Agency classified a lab as a “superlab” if it could produce more than ten pounds of meth every week.
Wholesale, a pound of methamphetamine was worth $17,000.
refulgent
shining brightly
obsidian
hard glasslike volcanic rock
susurration
whispering. murmuring
hygiene looked as if it was an afterthought.
It was a good lesson learned: style trumped substance every single time. It was ever thus.
back row at meetings the Denial Aisle,
inapposite
Out of place
“Sorry about that. Low tolerance level for idiots.”
unctuousness
Anxious to please
old political adage: losers spin, winners grin.
