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.”

Amoransia

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Watashiato

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Foilsick

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Redesis

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Mottleheaded

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On Tenderhooks

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Lackout

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Bye-Over

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Attriage

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Querinous

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Lookaback

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Antiophobia

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Immerensis

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Feresy

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Heartworm

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Hubilance

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Midding

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Aesthosis

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Wenbane

a person standing on a ledge looking at a city skyline

Nodrophobia

close-up of a stained shirt

Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Elsewise

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Adomania

a person riding a horse

Dorgone

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