Fluke

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–noun 

1. the part of an anchor that catches in the ground, esp. the flat triangular piece at the end of each arm. 

2. a barb, or the barbed head, of a harpoon (魚叉), spear, arrow, or the like.

3. either half of the triangular tail of a whale. 



–noun

1. an accidental advantage; stroke of good luck: He got the job by a fluke. 

2. an accident or chance happening.

3. an accidentally successful stroke, as in billiards. 





　

Personally, I’d like to see her chained to a word-processor because the screenplay to Juno simply couldn’t have been a fluke and I want more.





insidious

inconspicuous, but actually with grave effect

an insidious [disease].

using an accepted [jocularity] in dealing with misguided members of the far right that [masks] the insidiousness of this form of [nostalgia].

While countless films paint [monstrous] pictures of the horrors of bad parenting, Little Children [sheds] light onto the much more [insidiously] easy trap of negligent parenting.

Twisted into [insidious] grins, their blood-red lips [ooze] a comic horror that will [seep] into the lives of the film's real kids,

It's [insidious], the way Highsmith seduces us into identifying with him and sharing his selfishness,

treacherous

He was cruel, [treacherous] and unscrupulous.

My [memory] is treacherous.

serendipitous

serendipitous scientific [discov]eries. 

Although Spielberg said he wanted to give Tom Hanks the time and space to develop elaborate situations like Tati [serendipit]ously blundered through

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