Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day is palaver. When I see that word, I think of James Joyce’s story “The Dead,” in which it’s spoken by Lily, the caretaker’s daughter:
The girl glanced back at him over her shoulder and said with great bitterness:Other words, other works of lit
— The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.
Apoplexy, avatar, bandbox, heifer, sanguine, sempiternal : Artificer : Ineluctable : Iridescent : Magnifico : Opusculum
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Scene: Asphalt-paved classroom.
A Language Cop pulls over students gossiping in a clearly marked lecture zone.
Cop: Palaver! Your talking too much!
Student One: Where's the citation?
Student Two: We've got writes! It's about our free dumb of speech.
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