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DFW Words

by cory on September 7th, 2011
I read David Foster Wallace's The Pale King in April. These are some of the words I looked up while reading it.
  • specular
  • obtrude
  • cruciform
  • applique
  • gimbal
  • incursion
  • chert
  • invaginate
  • connubial
  • parenchyma
  • irrupt
  • divest
  • umbrage
  • exacerbate
  • merrythought
  • sally
  • discursive
  • thanatology
  • plaint
  • imperious
  • imbrication
  • cowl
  • spindle
  • prolix
  • dyad
  • dyadic
  • labial
  • agnate
  • anfractuous
  • stridulate
  • carmine
  • blancmange
  • iterant
  • timorous
  • bandolier
  • forbearance
  • prostrate
Such a sesquipedalian guy, that DFW. (I seem to have lost some of the other words. The full list would be about twice this length.)

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