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authorWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-07-21T11·58+0100
committerWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2020-07-21T11·58+0100
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Back when I owned an iPhone -- before I switched (mistakenly and thus
temporarily) to Android -- I had a note for each year's newly learned words. As
I am condensing as many of my documents as possible into my briefcase, I decided
it is time for including a dictionary.

I can still record words on my phone, and then I can transfer them to this
document.
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+# 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"