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Sight-Sound

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Senses-Perception

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Pain-Loss

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Passion-Obsession

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Happiness-Contentment

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Shift-Movement

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Fact-Fiction

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Trust-Hope

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Connection-Relation

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Physical-Material

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Guilt-Shame

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Familiar-Unfamiliar

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Secrets-Mystery

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Tranquility-Harmony

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Awe-Fascination

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Push-Pull

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Space-Solitude

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Waking-Sleeping

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Frustration-Overwhelm

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Intuition-Insight

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Beginnings-Endings

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Desire-Longing

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Light-Shadow

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Possibility-Opportunity

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Identity-Personality

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Sadness-Displeasure

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Freedom-Separation

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Excitation-Agitation

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Loneliness-Detachment

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Life-Death

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Complexity-Confusion

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Imagination-Vision

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Fear-Anxiety

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Time-Memory

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Struggle-Conflict

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Satisfaction-Pleasure

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From the Dictionary

Zysia

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Ecury

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Wildred

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Leidenfreude

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Nilous

a person standing at a bus terminal

Hailbound

Cover image for the Hailbound word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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