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# Dictionary
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I will use this document to record words as I learn them aiming to improve my
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vocabulary. Enter the most recently learned word at the top and annotate that
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section with the current date.
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## July 21, 2020
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- `largesse`: generosity with money and/or gifts.
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"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of
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loneliness and the gift of privacy. It is this **largess** that accounts for
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the presence within the city's walls of a considerable section of the
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population[...]" - E.B. White, "Here Is New York"
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