Apolytus

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Apolytus

n.
the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing your old problems like a reptile shedding its skin, already able to twist back around and chuckle at this weirdly antiquated caricature of yourself that will soon come off completely.

From apolysis, the stage of molting when an invertebrate’s shell begins to separate from the skin beneath it + adultus, sacrificed. Pronounced “ah-pahl-i-tuhs.”

Nighthawk

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Rubatosis

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Insoucism

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Nementia

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Manusia

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Desanté

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Sayfish

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Aesthosis

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Trueholding

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Lyssamania

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Indosentia

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Tarrion

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Typifice

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Viadne

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Emodox

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The Wends

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Fitching

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Solysium

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Exulansis

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Catoptric Tristesse

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Ledsome

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Zielschmerz

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Trueholding

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Foreclearing

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