Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Glossary

by David Sedaris

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Glossary

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Perennial

Ongoing, continuous

Thrive

to perform very well, be successful

Evolve

to develop

Arouse

To stimulate, usually sexual

Xenophobic

racist or disliking foreigners

Parochial

Narrow or restricted

Wreath

an arrangement of flowers, leaves, or stems fastened in a ring and used for decoration or for laying on a grave

Dogmatic

Being opinionated

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