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Some clauses have an indie feel to them.
Which by the way is very, very wrong
The story of an imaginary word that managed to sneak past our editors and enter the dictionary.
sequacious 'intellectually servile'
inadmissible 'not capable of being allowed'
oligarch, pejorative 'a member a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes'
emolument 'the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites'
troll 'to harass, criticize, or antagonize especially by disparaging or mocking public statements'
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Pointing fingers at the term's history
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