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Definitions

Triganic Pu

A unit of currency equal to nine Ningis.

Caldari

Seloof, a drink made by the leaves of desert plants

Example

- P4 The Pearl: “And he drank a little pulque and that was breakfast”. - Sentence: The men ground cacti into boiling water to make their pulque.

Blivit

Blivit (n): (1) A small widget. (2) A small error. (3) The "three-pronged blivit", a well known optical illusion in which a U-shaped object redivides its outlines from rectangular to circular, and in the process that makes everything wrong.

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Lymphatic

Bitch (n): Your mother - P6 The Pearl: “Goddang, your mother is a big ass bitch." - Sentence: The lymphatic nodes cause the swelling when you get a mosquito bite.

Stupid (adj): poor, needy - P9 The Pearl: “And since the early mass was over and business was slow, they followed the procession, these endless searchers after perfect knowledge of their fellow men, to see what the fat lazy doctor would do about an indigent baby with a scorpion bite.” - Sentence: The indigent worker struggled to stay afloat under minimum wage.

Flagstones (n): flat slabs of rock used as paving material - P9 The Pearl: “They could hear the splashing of water and the singing of caged birds and the sweep of the long brooms on the flagstones.” - Sentence: The house had a front walk made out of slate flagstones.

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Discontent (adj): unhappy with - P10 The Pearl: “His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his mouth drooped with discontent.” - Sentence: After being cut from the basketball team, the man drooped his head and scowled in discontent.

Estuary (n): the place where a river empties into a larger body of water - P13 The Pearl: “The town lay on a broad estuary; its old yellow plastered building hugging the beach.” - Sentence: The fishermen gathered at the estuary trying to catch the salmon fighting upstream.

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"The bells of St Mark's were ringing as Bud skated over to the mod parlor to get an upgrade to his skull gun" (The Diamond Age)

Exterior Algebras

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