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"page_title": "Weekly Challenge -- Nabokov Words",
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"meta_description": "How familiar are you with Nabokov\u2019s unfamiliar vocabulary?",
"teaser": "How familiar are you with Nabokov\u2019s unfamiliar vocabulary?",
"body": "Vladimir Nabokov is renowned as one of the most masterful prose stylists of the twentieth century. He is also known for being quite fond of using exceedingly obscure words. The second edition of Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1934), which contains many such words, is reported to have been his favorite lexicographic work. All of the words in the quiz below may be found in the most recent version of Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.",
"response_generic": " However, if you delight in the play of language to such an extent that you find these curios enjoyable, you are in luck, for Nabokov's work abounds in them, and there are hundreds more for you to discover. ",
"response_first_quartile": "Fantastic! If you delight in the play of language to such an extent that you found these curios enjoyable, you are in luck, for Nabokov's work abounds in them, and there are hundreds more for you to discover. ",
"response_second_quartile": "Good job! If you delight in the play of language to such an extent that you found these curios enjoyable, you are in luck, for Nabokov's work abounds in them, and there are hundreds more for you to discover. ",
"response_third_quartile": "Edmund Wilson took exception to his friend Nabokov's penchant for obscure vocabulary, accusing him of merely using \u201cdictionary words.\" Perhaps he, like you, might enjoy a simpler quiz below.",
"response_fourth_quartile": "Edmund Wilson took exception to his friend Nabokov's penchant for obscure vocabulary, accusing him of merely using \u201cdictionary words.\" Perhaps he, like you, might enjoy a simpler quiz below.",
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"question": "\"**Crepitations** of steel and the scraping of soles: every morning his father fenced with Monsieur Mascara, a diminutive elderly Frenchman made of gutta-percha and black bristle.\" \u201cOrache\u201d",
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"question": "\u201cHe was arrested, accused of being a \u2018British spy\u2019 and sent to a Hamburg concentration camp where he died of **inanition**.\u201d _Speak, Memory_",
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"question": "\u201c\u2026all of which went to enrich with mystery, rather than soberly elucidate, the allusions to **meretricious** love that I met with during my first immersions in Chekhov or Andreev.\u201d _Speak, Memory_",
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"question": "\u201cNot Kinbote, but his uncle, an irresponsible **paraphrast**, mistranslates Shakespeare.\u201d _Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977_",
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