All 4 Uses
antidote
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Notes of a Native Son
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- —a stronger antidote to this poison than one had found for oneself.†
Subsection 3 *antidote = cure
- The avenues, side streets, bars, billiard halls, hospitals, police stations, and even the playgrounds of Harlem —not to mention the houses of correction, the jails, and the morgue—testified to the potency of the poison while remaining silent as to the efficacy of whatever antidote, irresistibly raising the question of whether or not such an antidote existed; raising, whichwas worse, the question of whether or not an antidote was desirable; perhaps poison should be fought with poison.†
Subsection 3
- The avenues, side streets, bars, billiard halls, hospitals, police stations, and even the playgrounds of Harlem —not to mention the houses of correction, the jails, and the morgue—testified to the potency of the poison while remaining silent as to the efficacy of whatever antidote, irresistibly raising the question of whether or not such an antidote existed; raising, whichwas worse, the question of whether or not an antidote was desirable; perhaps poison should be fought with poison.†
Subsection 3
- The avenues, side streets, bars, billiard halls, hospitals, police stations, and even the playgrounds of Harlem —not to mention the houses of correction, the jails, and the morgue—testified to the potency of the poison while remaining silent as to the efficacy of whatever antidote, irresistibly raising the question of whether or not such an antidote existed; raising, whichwas worse, the question of whether or not an antidote was desirable; perhaps poison should be fought with poison.†
Subsection 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(antidote) a cure for something bad -- especially for poison
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)