Words of Severance

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A collection of words from the TV show Severance.

beget

If I can get my ideas to severed workers all across the world, it might beget a revolution.

Ricken

S2E5 00:35:50

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Verb

1. To produce or bring forth (a child); to be a parent of; to father or sire.
2. To cause; to produce; to bring forth.
3. To get or obtain.

harpy

Get your harpy hands off me.

Hampton

S2E8 00:24:07

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Noun

1. A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
2. A shrewish woman.
3. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.

indecorous

Gretchen is my wife and my beloved, and your actions with her were deeply fucking indecorous.

Dylan

S2E10 00:31:18

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Adjective

Improper, immodest, or indecent.

pernicious

My words provided more fuel for a pernicious hate and derision.

Helly

S2E2 00:10:58

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Adjective

1. Causing much harm in a subtle way.
2. Causing death or injury; deadly.
3. Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.

prattling

I sound like a sad old hamburger waiter prattling on about sauces.

Ricken

S1E9 00:14:57

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Verb

To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

dialectics

Just stick to the flowchart and escalate properly depending on dialectics.

Cobel

S1E1 00:16:07

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Noun

A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.

personage

So, your work personage will be waking in a few hours on the severed floor.

Milchick

S1E2 00:00:44

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Noun

1. A person, especially one who is famous or important.
2. A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
3. The creation of corporate persons named after living people. (Can we add an example for this sense? )

wizened

I am thankful to have been caught, my fall cut short by those with wizened hands.

Mark

S1E2 00:41:33

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Verb

simple past and past participle of wizen

perpetuity

That piece hung in the Perpetuity Wing for many years.

Burt

S1E2 00:43:07

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Noun

1. The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
2. Something that is perpetual.
3. A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.

ambrose

I loved that you did the Ambrose cycle in the team-building space last quarter.

Irving

S1E2 00:43:35

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Noun

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia (Dysphania botrys).

feckless

Lumon has been good to us, and it is feckless to…

Irving

S1E2 00:48:47

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Adjective

1. Lacking purpose.
2. Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
3. Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.

blight

“They” is a group of people that know severance is a blight on mankind.

Petey

S1E3 00:04:37

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Noun

1. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.
2. A diseased condition suffered by a plant; specifically, a complete and rapid chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as floral organs, leaves, branches, or twigs, especially one caused by a fungus; a mildew, a rust, a smut.
3. The cause of such a condition, often unseen but believed to be airborne; specifically, a bacterium, a virus, or (especially) a fungus; also, an aphid which attacks fruit trees.

lionizing

If Petey were the tone-setter you’re lionizing him as, he’d still be here.

Cobel

S1E3 00:25:02

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Verb

To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.

ramrod

You don’t understand why my posture’s ramrod straight.

Irving

S1E3 00:26:51

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Noun

1. Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
2. Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
3. An erect penis.

impiety

So, of course, you’d pervert our founder’s message with jokes and impiety.

Irving

S1E3 00:40:44

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Noun

1. The state of being impious.
2. An impious act.
3. The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.

compunction

I’m bringing up the compunction statement for Helly R.

Milchick

S1E3 00:45:52

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Noun

A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.

fretting

I’ve been fretting, though, because you mentioned the anticipation could distract from your work, which was the opposite of my intent.

Burt

S1E4 00:07:29

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Verb

present participle and gerund of fret

convalescence

It’s so dumb, but I actually cried when you guys put up The Youthful Convalescence of Kier.

Irving

S1E4 00:11:46

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Noun

1. A gradual healing after illness or injury.
2. The period of time spent healing.

idolatrous

This is an idolatrous text that should be brought to him immediately.

Irving

S1E4 00:18:44

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Adjective

1. Partaking in idolatry; worshipping idols or false gods.
2. Engaging in excessive attachment or reverence; inordinately or profanely devoted.
3. Used in or designed for idolatry; devoted to idols or idol-worship.

demised

You are my mouth, and through ye, I will whisper on when I am 10 centuries demised.”

Burt

S1E4 00:39:59

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Verb

simple past and past participle of demise

epiphanies

In your noblest thoughts and epiphanies shall be my voice.

Burt

S1E4 00:39:59

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Noun

plural of epiphany

vagrant

But I’ve lived abroad as a vagrant, abstaining from my own money to rely on the charity of strangers.

Mark

S1E4 00:40:34

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Noun

1. A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.
2. A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
3. Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

acrostic

An acrostic poem experience by the author, Ricken Hale.” “D is for dreaming, the start of it all; E is for energy breaking down walls; S is for stewardship, of home and of earth.

Dylan

S1E4 00:43:40

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Noun

1. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
2. A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
3. A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.

marauder

Save it, marauder.

Dylan

S1E5 00:33:19

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Noun

1. Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
2. Any person who or thing which marauds.

larval

According to some, you each have a larval offspring that will jump out and attack if we get too close.

Burt

S1E5 00:34:36

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Adjective

1. Of or relating to larvae: Being a larva. Characteristic of larvae. Having the form or shape of a larva.
2. Being a larva.
3. Characteristic of larvae.

fraternize

Fraternization has nothing to do with it.

Irving

S1E6 00:09:43

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Verb

1. To associate with others in a brotherly or friendly manner.
2. To associate as friends with an enemy, in violation of duty.
3. To socialize in confidentiality.

aide-de-camp

And we can each bring one aide-de-camp.

Burt

S1E6 00:18:46

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Noun

A military officer who serves as an adjutant to a higher-ranking officer, prince or other high political dignitary.

areola

Yeah, expose the areola.

Cobel

S1E7 00:18:40

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Noun

1. The circular, darkly pigmented area surrounding a nipple; the areola mammae.
2. Any small circular area that is different from its immediate environment, such as the colored ring around the pupil of the eye (iris) or an inflamed region surrounding a pimple.
3. Any of the small spaces throughout areolar connective tissue.

snoot

What a snoot.

Cobel

S1E7 00:19:59

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Noun

1. An elitist or snobbish person.
2. A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
3. A nose or snout.

frivolity

And I thought a little frivolity

Milchick

S1E7 00:22:56

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Noun

1. frivolous act
2. state of being frivolous

castanets

Should’ve gone for the castanets.

Irving

S1E7 00:23:18

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Noun

A percussion instrument (idiophone) of Spanish origin, consisting of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by a string, held in the hand and used to produce clicking sounds; any hand-held percussion idiophone that can be played with the fingers, such as bones or spoons.

toxoid

He needs a full tetanus toxoid panel.

Irving

S1E7 00:26:05

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Noun

A toxin that has had its toxic properties removed, but retains its ability to generate an immune response.

indelible

The impression you’ve left on me is indelible, though I’m unaware of it on a conscious level, and…I will never forget any of you, even though sitting here right now, I have no recollection of actually ever meeting you and no idea of your names or any of your physical characteristics or even how many of you there are.

Burt

S1E7 00:37:18

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Adjective

1. Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.
2. Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten.
3. Incapable of being annulled.

progeny

But only if you behave in a manner that brings no shame upon yourself, the founder or his progeny.

Milchick

S1E7 00:39:12

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Noun

1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
2. Descent, lineage, ancestry.
3. A result of a creative effort.

incisors

Our three-time R of the Q! A man whose mind is as sharp as his incisors.

Milchick

S1E8 00:18:58

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Noun

plural of incisor

endow

“Endow in each swing of your ax or swipe of your pen the sum of your affections, that through me they may be purified and returned.

Irving

S1E8 00:23:22

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Verb

1. To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
2. To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
3. To naturally furnish (with something).

waft

we are nearing that hour, so if you’d all peacefully waft in the living room…

Ricken

S1E9 00:07:51

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Verb

1. To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
2. To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
3. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

punitive

This accompanied a punitive rendition of the Kier hymn performed by Ms. Cobel.

Milchick

S2E1 00:05:47

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Adjective

Inflicting punishment; punishing.

sadist

But for the past five months, we've been asking how a sadist like Harmony Cobel could take fertile root in Lumon soil.

Milchick

S2E1 00:06:10

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Noun

One who derives pleasure through cruelty or pain to others.

rube

“A man whose stupidity is rivaled only by that of the nine core principles.

Milchick

S2E1 00:15:55

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Noun

1. A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
2. An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

shambolic

“A man whose stupidity is rivaled only by that of the nine core principles.

Milchick

S2E1 00:15:55

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Adjective

Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.

siring

I've gone through a lot of changes since my siring here in 1870.

Lumon Building

S2E1 00:26:22

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Verb

present participle and gerund of sire

bounteous

The Macrodat Uprising yielded bounteous reforms.

Lumon Building

S2E1 00:28:05

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Adjective

1. Inclined to be generous.
2. Liberal or abundant.

visitation

Are you saying I could see my family here?

Dylan G

S2E1 00:43:44

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Noun

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.

liaise

We'll have someone from the floor liaise with the outies.

Helly

S2E2 00:02:33

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Verb

1. To establish a liaison.
2. To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
3. To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.

contrition

I welcome your contrition.

Cobel

S2E2 00:05:56

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Noun

1. The state of being contrite; sincere penitence or remorse.
2. The act of grinding or rubbing to powder.

inebriating

This had an inebriating effect,

Helly

S2E2 00:09:08

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Adjective

Having intoxicating qualities

endemic

Distrust of Lumon has been sadly endemic since its founding.

Helly

S2E2 00:10:54

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Adjective

1. Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.
2. Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.
3. Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population.

derision

My words provided more fuel for a pernicious hate and derision.

Helly

S2E2 00:10:58

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Noun

1. Act of treating with disdain.
2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.

profundity

Let's deal with what we know to be true, all right? Mark's workie went to great lengths to awaken himself to alert us to abuses. He was inspired by my book. He found great meaning in it. Profundity. Goddamn it, Rebeck. Honey, can– Got her?

Ricken

S2E2 00:15:12

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Noun

1. The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
2. Deep intellect or insight.
3. A great depth; a deep place.

bedevil

Nor bedevil you out here any further.

Milchick

S2E2 00:18:03

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Verb

1. To harass or cause trouble for; to plague.
2. To perplex or bewilder.
3. To possess (someone's mind).

hubris

And they make their doors in-house. It's fucking hubris.

Mr. Saliba

S2E2 00:26:23

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Noun

Excessive pride, presumption, or arrogance (originally toward the gods).

fripperies

Wellness… we don't abide such fripperies here.

Lorne

S2E3 00:18:48

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Noun

plural of frippery

impugn

It would be cool to know what this is about. So, like, is it rude to keep asking why you're a kid? I don't mean to impugn. It's just like, are you okay, you know? They're not, like, forcing you to be here, are they? Oh, fuck. Why are we going to the security room? Wow.

Dylan

S2E3 00:20:21

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Verb

1. To assault, attack.
2. To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.

mountebank

I wouldn't trust a word out of that mountebank's mouth. Not even televisually.

Irving

S2E4 00:06:46

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Noun

1. One who sells dubious medicines.
2. One who sells by deception; a con artist.
3. Any boastful, false pretender.

beseeched

But as we blossomed into boyhood, he beseeched me to take to the wood with him to live as paupers.

Helly

S2E4 00:10:55

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Verb

simple past and past participle of beseech

paupers

But as we blossomed into boyhood, he beseeched me to take to the wood with him to live as paupers.

Helly

S2E4 00:10:55

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Noun

One who is extremely poor.

flora

“Once concealed by flora, my brother…”

Irving

S2E4 00:11:37

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Noun

1. Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
2. A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
3. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.

fervor

“The din of his fervor fell strangely into concert with the music of the wood.”

Kier

S2E4 00:11:43

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Noun

1. An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
2. A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
3. Heat.

trill

“His every thrust found rhythm with the trill of the crickets…”

Kier

S2E4 00:11:51

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Noun

1. A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
2. A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
3. A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

wantonness

“And it was here that I first encountered the temper Woe, a gaunt bride, half the height of a natural woman. She spoke to me directly from her eyes and said, 'This is your doing. You suffered his wantonness. Now he's no one's brother. Only chaos's whore.'” The end. Perhaps in the morning, we'll have time for the next chapter… “Kier and the Thieving Nanny.”

Milchick

S2E4 00:23:30

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Noun

1. The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
2. A particular wanton act.

forthwith

Your outie will be notified forthwith.

Milchick

S2E4 00:46:18

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Adverb

Without delay; immediately.

consort

Please refrain from any further speech, as you are no longer authorized to consort with any severed employee, nor they with you.

Milchick

S2E4 00:47:03

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Noun

1. The spouse of a monarch.
2. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
3. An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.

purged

Your file, including any and all professional interactions and personal relations, will be purged and destroyed.

Milchick

S2E4 00:48:30

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Verb

simple past and past participle of purge

contretemps

We have decided to spare him knowledge of this contretemps.

Drummond

S2E5 00:06:06

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Noun

1. An unforeseen, inopportune, or embarrassing event.
2. An ill-timed pass.

vestments

He would don an old, gray robe, a Gråkappan, the name for which he was remembered, to disguise his royal vestments.

Milchick

S2E5 00:11:32

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Noun

Any of the special articles of clothing worn by members of the clergy etc., especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist.

theremin

Yes, well, I feel the theremin works best in moderation.

Milchick

S2E5 00:22:29

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Noun

An electronic musical instrument that generates sound of varying pitch and volume depending on the proximity of the musician’s hands to two antennae mounted on the instrument.

tumult

Hopefully, now we can put all this grief and tumult behind us and look forward to some productive workdays ahead.

Milchick

S2E5 00:33:33

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Noun

1. Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
2. Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
3. A riot or uprising.

Philistine

What your innie ever saw in this Philistine is beyond me.

Fields

S2E6 00:25:40

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Noun

1. A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.
2. An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.
3. In German universities: a person not associated with the university; a non-academic or non-student; a townsperson.

zealots

We're not zealots, I swear.

Fields

S2E6 00:28:16

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Noun

plural of zealot

solitary

I can tell that you're smarter than me, so forgive me if I say this, like, super plainly, but if you give one solitary thought to messing with my brother again, I will throw you off a fucking bridge.

Devon

S2E7 00:04:06

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Noun

1. One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.
2. Ellipsis of solitary confinement.
3. The state of being solitary; solitude

belayed

Hey, I belayed my first couloir in middle school.

Ricken

S2E7 00:15:56

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Verb

simple past and past participle of belay

couloir

Hey, I belayed my first couloir in middle school.

Ricken

S2E7 00:15:56

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Noun

1. A steep gorge along a mountainside.
2. A corridor or passage.

gaiety

How did you feel in the hall? Did you exit any of the rooms feeling despair? Fervor? Gaiety?

Mauer

S2E7 00:24:38

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Noun

1. The state of being happy or merry.
2. Merrymaking or festivity.

chic

I like the new do. Très chic.

Hampton

S2E8 00:04:54

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Adjective

Elegant, stylish.

retrenchment

Yeah, well, with the market readjustment from a few years ago and the fluctuating interest rates, there was a retrenchment from some of the core infrastructure investments.

Hampton

S2E8 00:06:55

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Noun

1. A curtailment or reduction.
2. An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
3. An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.

pariah

Then you know she's a fucking pariah here.

Hampton

S2E8 00:10:49

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Noun

1. Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
2. A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
3. Ellipsis of pariah dog (“an Indian breed, any stray dog in Indian contexts”).

industrious

Even at the factory, no apprentice was more industrious than you.

Sissy

S2E8 00:18:02

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Adjective

Hard-working and persistent.

fealty

Everything that you have, you owe back to the Eagans as fealty.

Sissy

S2E8 00:31:44

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Noun

Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.

chicanery

If he smells chicanery, he'll lock you out of the building.

Cobel

S2E9 00:22:42

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Noun

1. Deception by the use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
2. An individual act of trickery or deception.
3. The quality of being inclined to trickery or deceitfulness.

magnanimous

Well, it's truly special to host a man so illustrious, so sapient, so magnanimous–

Milchick

S2E10 00:38:44

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Adjective

Noble and generous in spirit.

sapient

Well, it's truly special to host a man so illustrious, so sapient, so magnanimous–

Milchick

S2E10 00:38:44

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Adjective

1. Possessing discernment and wisdom; learned, wise.
2. Attempting to appear discerning or wise. Followed by of: aware or knowledgeable of. Of a lifeform or species: possessing intelligence or a high degree of self-awareness.
3. Attempting to appear discerning or wise.

verve

Has it verve?

Drummond

S2E10 00:49:15

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Noun

1. Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
2. A particular skill in writing.

Words of Severance

beget

Verb

harpy

Noun

indecorous

Adjective

pernicious

Adjective

prattling

Verb

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dialectics

Noun

personage

Noun

wizened

Verb

perpetuity

Noun

ambrose

Noun

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feckless

Adjective

blight

Noun

lionizing

Verb

ramrod

Noun

impiety

Noun

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compunction

Noun

fretting

Verb

convalescence

Noun

idolatrous

Adjective

demised

Verb

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epiphanies

Noun

vagrant

Noun

acrostic

Noun

marauder

Noun

larval

Adjective

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fraternize

Verb

aide-de-camp

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areola

Noun

snoot

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frivolity

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castanets

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toxoid

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indelible

Adjective

progeny

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incisors

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endow

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