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karnage (198 words)
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I learned this word when I read an essay my brother wrote years ago. I was already old and deep into words then, so I was shocked to find a word I'd never seen or heard before.
Wow, those are big words for the New York Times.
"Actually, as Ross makes clear, the alternatives are mutually implicated and imbricated: 'precisely because of its inarticulate nature,' music is 'all too easily imprinted with ideologies and deployed to political ends.'"
- The New York Times, October 28, 2007
found in the poem Asparagus by Robin Robertson (form Switherling
"...the dark tip --slubbed and imbricate