The Doomsday Machine Glossary

by Daniel Ellsberg

The Doomsday Machine Glossary

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Prosaic

Mundane, uninspired

Trite

Ordinary, conventional

Transient

Brief, temporary

Variegated

Mottled, prismatic

Poignant

Mournful, miserable

Clambered

Mounted, ascended

Bleak

Empty, desolate

Arbitrary

Capricious, unpredictable

Exorbitant

Punitive, excessive

Anomalous

Atypical, bizarre

Disdainful

Haughty, scornful

Debauched

Lewd, corrupt

Contrite

Regretful, ashamed

Litigant

Contestant, opponent in lawsuit

Evanescence

Impermanence, quality of being transient

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