Dorgone

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Dorgone

adj.
wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation without anyone noticing your absence.

Old Norse dár, benumbed + forgone, to have already left or abstained. Pronounced “dohr-gon.”

Harmonoia

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Flichtish

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Nementia

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Halfwise

a train coming towards the camera shot from the tracks

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Semaphorism

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