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Polyglot

a person who knows and uses several languages

Inverted Pyramid

@invertedpyramid.bsky.social

#BadBunny represents the future of America’s polyglot culture.

#KidRock is a dinosaur. He just won’t accept what he knows to be true.

#SuperBowlHalftimeShow

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Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

DickensYouSay

@dickensyousay.bsky.social

“You will not persist in saying that,” rejoined the gentleman, with a voice and emphasis of kindness that might have touched a much harder and more obdurate heart. “Think now. Tell me.”

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Diaphanous

light; delicate; translucent (usually referred to when describing fabric)

Walt "FML" Whitman

@whitmanfml.bsky.social

My girlfriend's dad asked me if I wanted to drive his 2008 Jaguar XKR. Excitedly, the little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows.

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Turgid

swollen; distended; congested

Rick Something

@crystalpepsi.bsky.social

The patriots are somehow more turgid than Tottenham

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Sully

to dirty; to make impure; to soil; to stain

Rightardia

@rightardia.bsky.social

"Infuriated at the sullying of a cherished American tradition, angry conservatives across the country vented their outrage Friday over this weekend’s Super Bowl being held in the foreign city of Santa Clara."

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Attenuate

To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender

New Scientist

@newscientist.com

One type of friction can waste energy even when two perfectly smooth surfaces move against each other, but researchers are getting a handle on how to attenuate or stop it completely

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Delineate

1. to describe something very exactly 2. to trace the outline of; to sketch or trace an outline; to represent something in pictures or pictorially

History is What's Happening

@historyiswhat.bsky.social

New internet-brained people will assume everything is about getting a dunk in or hashing-out personal grudges, whereas, I, an old fart, know that it's important to clearly delineate your (anti)political differences, that you can't build real affinity otherwise.

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Abstemious

to be sparing or moderate in drinking or eating (in general); not greedy; not self-endulgent; not indulging to excess.

Mister Skeleton's Trivia Zone

@mister.skeletontrivia.com.ap.brid.gy

Abstemious sequoias discourage nefarious omeisaurs

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Gambol

to run or jump about in a playful way (implies a general joy); frolic; skip; dance; leap; prance;

stupid Canadian wolf bird

@rubadubgrub.bsky.social

I have one (1) meeting tomorrow and part of me really wants to take the day off.

I don’t know what I would do, though - contractors are coming tomorrow, so I can’t exactly frolic or gallivant, much less gambol.

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Ambivalence

having mixed feelings; contradictory ideas about something or someone; doubt; hesitancy; unsureness; uncertainty

@au-nb.bsky.social

Trump calls Hunter Hess ‘a real loser’ for skier’s ambivalence about representing US | Winter Olympics 2026

https://https://www.newsbeep.com/au/469107/

Donald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a “real loser” and…

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