My expanded vocabulary came in handy

Sometimes I doodle new words I come across while reading. Three I’d added to my vocabulary previously showed up in Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight, by Julia Sweig:

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Anodyne

According to Sweig, Lady Bird’s “work would fall under the umbrella term beautification, and her advisors and collaborators would join what was an anodyne-sounding Beautification Committee.”

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2

Hagiography

Lady Bird made herself available to “women writing profiles and hagiographies about her” to “the point of near-total exhaustion.”

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3

Pedagogue

Lady Bird was nervous “at the thought of putting [herself] forward as a sort of city planner, landscape architect, pedagogue.”

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The top two vocab words are from When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art, by Matthew Algeo.
The third is from A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, by Troy Senik.

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