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Gerontocracy, Winnowing, Rueful, Onerous, Copse (self.wotd)

submitted 7 months ago by j4k3 to c/wotd

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gerontocracy - a political system governed by old men
winnowing - the act of separating the grain from the chaff; select the desirable parts of a group or list; to cull
rueful - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for offenses
onerous - not easily borne; wearing (burdensome, taxing)
copse - a dense growth of bushes
brake - an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

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[–] subspaceinterferents 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We debouched from the copse, after hiding from the cops.

[–] j4k3 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The thugs of the gerontocracy saw y'all emerge from the brake. Without an onerous thought, the bullets sprayed across the coppice in a rueful winnowing of frenetic antipathy, their stolid expressions giving way to ebullience, ministering their ineffable pall, as the diminuendo of final susurrations fades to a sanguine-white noise of silence.