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25Oct, 2016

Education: The French Connection Spotlight on Vocabulary: POCOCURANTE

Pococurante: 1. Italianism: blasé, indifferent, elitist; 2. proper noun: the name given to a rich Venetian patrician in Voltaire’s Candide…

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