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Brooks M. - Incongruously


 * > Name: || Brooks M. ||
 * > Word: || Incongruously ||
 * > Source: || The Savage Words of Peace, Max Boot, "Butcher And Bolt", Pg. 31 ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || Adjective, inconsistent with itself ||
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incongruously ||
 * > Context Sentences: || He was to get more than he bargained for. Gap. On October 25, 1813, the //Essex// weighed anchor at Nukahiva, an island of 131 square miles with the best harbor in the Marquesas chain, which Porter **incongruously** dubbed Massachusetts Bay . Here the //Essex// was joined by five of the ships that she had captured, including one christened //Essex Junior//. ||

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