• leitmotif: a motif or theme associated throughout a music drama with a particular person, situation, or idea.
  • petard: —Idiom: hoist by or with one's own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
  • comeuppance: deserved reward or just deserts, usually unpleasant: He finally got his comeuppance for his misbehavior.
  • zeitgeist: the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.
  • vigesimation: The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
  • nudiustertian:
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