Addleworth

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Addleworth

adj.
unable to settle the question of whether you’re doing okay in life; feeling torn between conflicting value systems and moveable goalposts, which makes you long for someone to come along and score your progress in discrete and measurable units—points, dollars, friends, followers, or a grade point average—which may not clear up where you’re going but would at least reassure you that you’re one step closer to getting there.

From addled, muddled or unclear + worth.

Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground

Lookaback

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Endzoned

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Epistrix

several doors standing in a dark room

Lilo

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Rivener

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