Candling

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Candling

v. intr.
the habit of taking stock of your life on the occasion of your birthday—letting it serve as a kind of internal referendum on all your goals and qualities and relationships and accomplishments so far—which makes you want to dress just a little nicer that day, as if you’re standing before a parole board that convenes once a year to adjudicate your release from childhood.

From candling, a method of egg inspection in which an egg is backlit with a candle flame to reveal how the chick is growing, or if it's there at all.

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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Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Antiophobia

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Ledsome

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Heartworm

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Adronitis

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Attriage

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Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Falesia

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