Bareleveling

Bareleveling

v.
trying to improve yourself without anyone else knowing about it, afraid that they’ll think it’s silly or grandiose or unnecessary, or that they’ll end up calling too much attention to your efforts, transforming a casual tweak into a flashy rebranding campaign.

Armenian բարելավվել (barelavvel), to become better. Pronounced “bair-lev-uhl-ing.”

Loss Of Backing

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Mcfeely

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Malotype

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Indosentia

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Leidenfreude

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Emodox

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Maugry

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Liberosis

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Trueholding

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Agnosthesia

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Deep Gut

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Manusia

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Nementia

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Altschmerz

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Allope

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Fensiveness

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Sayfish

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Mithenness

a person standing on the side of a road

The Standard Blues

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1202

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