Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Caucic

adj.
afraid that the rest of your life is already laid out in front of you, that you’re being swept inexorably along a series of predictable milestones—from school to graduation to career to marriage to kids to retirement to death—which makes you wish you could pull off to the side of the road for a little while, to stretch your legs and spread out the map so you can double-check that you’re headed the right way.

Middle English cauci, path or road + caustic, able to burn or corrode living tissue. Pronounced “kaw-sik.”

Aoyaoia

a person holding a guitar

Winnewaw

a person wearing a party hat

Evertheless

a person floating in water

Caucic

a close-up of a stone walking path

Kadot

a person looking at an abstract spiral

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Knellish

a blurry image of a person lying on a bed

Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench

Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Angosis

a table full of food

Irrition

a close up of a dandelion

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Achenia

a close-up of a bottle with an organic object inside

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

Fygophobia

Elsing

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end

The Meantime

Siso

Dolorblindness