Entry: prolix (adj.)
In context: "...the etiology is going to get head-clutchingly prolix and involved..."
Definition: Of long duration, lengthy, protracted; overlong, overextended. Now rare in general sense.
Other: Page 369 contains a typo: "that odd old dark moment of aphasiac terror with this veiled like psuedo-intellectual..."
SNOOT score: 2
Page: 370
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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