Thread by @RaquelDesigns, In an effort to encourage me to note new words more often, [...]

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In an effort to encourage me to note new words more often, and to have an easy reference, a thread of words I didn't previously know, and the essays or books I found them in (pre-seeded by a note I had on my phone app):

Distaff https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-discovering-the-truth-about-her-parents.html

Neither of My Parents Was Exactly Who I Thought They Were

Elizabeth Wurtzel spent decades trying to understand why nobody in her family was much like her.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-discovering-the-truth-about-her-parents.html

Transom https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko book. Read 17,935 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled ...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko

Intercession, Decoction, Efflorescence, Concomitant https://newrepublic.com/article/153153/age-anxiety

Age of Anxiety

America seems to be in the midst of a full-blown panic attack. Is there anything we can do about it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/153153/age-anxiety

Feckless, Pith https://nylon.com/wicked-witch-west-queer-love

Didn't Everyone Want To Bang The Wicked Witch of the West?

No rest for the Wicked Witch of the West, who taught me about lust, evil, and queerness

https://nylon.com/wicked-witch-west-queer-love

Dishabille, Paraphilia, Chary, Tendentious https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/essays/on-liking-women/

On Liking Women

Once a week, for a single semester of high school, I would be dismissed early from class to board the athletics bus with fifteen teenage girls in sleek cap-sleeved volleyball jerseys and short shorts.

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/essays/on-liking-women/

Shamus https://nyti.ms/2yDSZL8

Review: In ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ Hunting Replicants Amid Strangeness

The director Denis Villeneuve tries to both honor Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian classic and to slip free of its considerable shadow.

https://nyti.ms/2yDSZL8

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