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recrudescence

 (n): a return of something after a period of abatement
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4 months ago yarb said:

I see this word a lot in Conrad.

5 months ago SonofGroucho said:

You never seem to hear of crudescence, do you?

5 months ago vmarinelli said:

First encountered this word in some column by George Will. Which just figures. (Both the fact that it was a George Will-dispatched vocabulary word, and the fact that I have zero recollection of the article save for said word.)

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