path: root/dictionary.md

# Dictionary

I will use this document to record words as I learn them aiming to improve my
vocabulary. Enter the most recently learned word at the top and annotate that
section with the current date.

## July 21, 2020
- `largesse`: generosity with money and/or gifts. 
  "On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of
  loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this **largess** that accounts for
  the presence within the city's walls of a considerable section of the
  population[...]" - E.B. White, "Here Is New York"