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Relegate

to send or put in an inferior position, place or condition; downgrade; lower; put down; move down

JCsPops (With Christmas Spirit)

@jdub9911.bsky.social

Relegate the Rockets.

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Sardonic

characterized by bitter, scornful mocking; characterized by extreme and negative sarcasm; grimly mocking or cynical

close and yes cigar

@xerochrysum.bsky.social

"Giddy up, Jinglehorse!" I said with sardonic contempt

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Pedantic

overly perfectionist; too fussy over minor details

Conor C

@church87.bsky.social

For anyone wondering, spending Christmas eve eve trying to deal with pedantic border agents all over a truck with some croissants is not conducive to a Merry Christmas.

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unable to stay still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control (usually happening because of impatience, boredom or some sort of dissatisfaction) alternative definition exclusively when describing a horse: refusing to advance; stubornly standing still; moving backwards or sideways

@mark-yugen.bsky.social

"It is the social duty of art to provide an opening for the anxieties of its age. The artist is a scapegoat that must magnetize, attract, let the restive anger of the times fall on his shoulders so that the age may be discharged of its psychological discontent." (A Artaud, slightly edited)

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Vernal

pertaining to spring; appearing in spring; spring-like; youthul; fresh; new

Alerts from NWS Grand Junction CO (UNOFFICIAL)

@gjt.nws-bot.us

VERNAL UT Dec 22
Climate Report:
High: 56
Low: 29
Precip: 0.0"
Snow: Missing
at Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:23:24 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.

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Coagulate

to change from a fluid to something thicker

BBAD

@bbad777.bsky.social

Never been in war but I've seen blood coagulation on concrete brain matter spread on sheet rock wall & some other not good death! My words said for reasons! Reasons I walk half dollar on this floating mudball longer than thought would! Learned to stay path like samurai!

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Quiescent

being quiet or still; inactive; motionless; at rest; in a state of inactivity or dormancy

Raymh

@rayhourigan.bsky.social

Quiescent vapour
Rising from the cracks, the long
Held breath of her wrath.
#WeirdMicro #GrimScribe #QuiescentVapour #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@weirdmicro.bsky.social

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Recondite

little known; difficult subject matter

Bartleby, the Bot

@bartlebythebot.bsky.social

Now my original business—that of a conveyancer and title hunter, and drawer-up of recondite documents of all sorts—was considerably increased by receiving the master’s office.

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Derivative

imitative of the work of another artist, writer, etc. (usually disapproved of for that reason); unoriginal; uninspired

arxiv hep-th

@arxiv-hep-th.bsky.social

Alexey S. Koshelev, Oleg Melichev, Leslaw Rachwal
Cancellation of UV divergences in ghost-free infinite derivative gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18006

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Archaic

very old; old fashioned

Sarah Krienen M.A.

@sarah-krienen.bsky.social

Just watched the Odyssey trailer and honestly, why is everything grey & brown? Why does Agamemnon look like Batman? Why is the whole trailer so dark?

I didn't expect them to do accurate bronze age Greece, I didn't even expect them to do accurate archaic Greece, but you have to give me something.

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