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Polyglot

a person who knows and uses several languages

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A polyglot CodeCity visualizer built in Rust, rendering codebases as interactive 3D cities https://lobste.rs/s/fmj2tx #visualization

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Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

Sylvia Booth

@smfbooth.bsky.social

One of the problems with Social Media is that you can innocently ask a question of someone and they mistake your intention and assume you are being aggressively obdurate.

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Rococo

a style of art, architecture or furniture that is elaborately decorated; ornate; florid; flamboyant; overdecorated; baroque

Moggy Man

@secretchimp.bsky.social

Off to have a phat time, at Fat Freddy's Drop. I love the over the top, rococo style of The Forum as a venue.

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Diaphanous

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

Spanish open dictionary

@wordmeaningdic.bsky.social

Meaning of #transparente It means that it lets light through. That lets you see the images on the other side of you. That lets you see everything on the other side. That lets you see everything through them. That it has transparency. It also means diaphanous, tr.. transparente

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Turgid

swollen; distended; congested

TheCodeBlackDirective

@codeblackdirective.bsky.social

2 poor teams and a poor referee. Also one of these teams is the reigning PL champions. What an awful advert for the Premier League. Understandable a turgid team like Arsenal are winning this league #lfc

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Peripatetic

traveling from place to place

@ny-news.bsky.social

Zarina Brought the World to New York

https://https://www.europesays.com/us/667683/

Zarina Hashmi, known professionally as Zarina, lived a peripatetic life. She was born in 1937 in Aligarh before…#ny #nyc #newyork #nynews #nycnews #newyorknews #us #news #usnews

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Attenuate

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

MolPlantSci

@molplantsci.bsky.social

Manuel González-Fuente from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum will tell us how bacteria exploit plant P-bodies to attenuate host translation during infection
#MBP2026

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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

🌻OK MR. SUNSHINE!🌻

@entobiologist.bsky.social

me: i wish there was a specific punctuation marking to delineate the individual species i'm listing in this sentence

the humble comma:

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Meretricious

apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)

@constroodlegame.bsky.social

Constroodle™ · 20 Mar 2026
Scholar · 4/5

🟩 incessant
🟩 reticent
🟩🎯 meretricious
🟩🎯 concomitant
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Try for yourself at https://constroodle.com

#vocab #vocabulary #wordle #wordgames

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way (with the intent to deceive); to lie

Joanne Harris

@joannechocolat.bsky.social

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1269.
If your dialogue is interesting, your dialogue tags can stay neutral. Replacing "he/she/they said" by "she exclaimed", " he expostulated" or "she prevaricated" is not only a rookie style, but a sign of uninteresting dialogue.

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