Christopher Hitchens

essayist, journalist

Late British-American polemicist whose devastating rhetoric and prodigious vocabulary made him one of the most formidable debaters of his generation.

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Words known to be used by Christopher Hitchens
  1. 2 polemic

    n. 1 an argument to refute a position or opinion; 2 one who aggressively advocates a position

    The term polemic is a lazy synonym for an insult.
  2. 3 vicarious

    adj.1. experienced secondhand; 2 suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another

    You seek vicarious redemption through another's pain.
  3. 5 totalitarian

    adj. referrring to a form of goverment in which one person or part holds absolute control from the Latin root 'totus' meaning WHOLE

    The totalitarian impulse is present in every religion.

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