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Michael Dean
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Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

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Alcott words

· 75 words

64 rare words from a single Kathleen Alcott essay: vertiginous, alight, glistering, totemic, succored, beatific, menace, pestilence, dictaphones, hatboxes, ossifying, operatic, repudiate, monomaniacal, haughtily, vain, balaclavas, moxibusion, ministered, lancing, auricular, constituent, disavowal, repertory, ghoul, transfigure, Dalmatian, imperious, polyphonic, winklepickers, chenille, revanchism, blush, mantel, cherub, Meisner technique, vainglorious, tidily, sorry end, waspy, sequins, garrulous, irredentism, tines, contiguous, relishing, skein, adipose, suppurating, banality, sniping, blithe, casuist, pirouette, befouled, comity, littoral, susurrus, copses, bawled, meager, rejoinder, dolorous, rufous.