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rare (of a gas, esp the atmosphere at high altitudes) having a low density; thin; rarefied
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Finding no one home, he scaled the stone wall and made his way into the great one's study, where he did nothing but breathe in the rarified atmosphere and rearranged five coins on Jung's mantelpiece into a more balanced formation. When Lulu Foxworth, college-age debutante from a prominent Charleston family, arrives to spend the summer, her father sees this as a way for him to at last enter the rarified world of Charleston society and Emily thinks she may have found a friend. The ionosphere is an electrically conducting series of layers of the Earth's atmosphere consisting of rarified gasses ionized by solar radiation. |
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