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.”

Ioia

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Leidenfreude

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Addleworth

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Vicarous

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Deep Gut

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Apolytus

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Proluctance

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Hiddled

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The Wends

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Viadne

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Fool’s Guilt

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Nementia

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Liberosis

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Punt Kick

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The Meantime

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Aesthosis

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Manusia

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Mcfeely

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Angosis

a table full of food

Hanker Sore

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Zielschmerz

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Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Wellium

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Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Pâro

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Xeno

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