July 2011
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Vitiate
|ˈviSHēˌāt| verb [ with obj. ]
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; to corrupt morally, debase; to make ineffective
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin vitiat-‘impaired,’ from the verb vitiare, from vitium.
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“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear...”
– Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
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The Book Thief.
I’m sure you all know that Borders is closing all of their stores and going out of business, it breaks my heart. So naturally I’m there every chance I can get to take advantage of their sale. I had been looking for The Book Thief everyday I went in but I could never find it. A couple of days ago I try one more time with my friend Dayna to see if they have it. We go upstairs to the...
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Character
(KARE-ec-ter): a person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature. Characters are extremely important because they are the medium through which a reader interacts with a piece of literature. Every character has his or her own personality, which a creative author uses to assist in forming the plot of a story or creating a mood. The different...
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– 1984 | George Orwell
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Zephyr
|ˈzefər| noun
literary a soft gentle breeze; the west wind; something that is airy or insubstantial. historical a very light article of clothing.
ORIGIN late Old English zefferus, denoting apersonification of the west wind, via Latin from Greek zephuros ‘(god of) the west wind.’ Sense 1 dates from the late 17th cent.
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The Bathroom is a Mess: Nabokov Anticipates a... →
The shocking and gruesome news out of Port St. Lucie, Florida, last weekend threatened to be swallowed up in a week dominated by awful violence of a more staggering scale. But readers of the Times weren’t likely to have missed a story about a seventeen-year-old named Tyler Hadley who “was giving a party for 60 people at his home … when, according to police, he confessed to a friend that he had...
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