Emodox

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Emodox

n.
someone whose mood is perpetually out of sync with everyone else around them, prone to feelings of naptime panic, heart-to-heart snark, or dance club pensiveness.

From emotional + dox, not conforming to expected norms. Pronounced “ee-moh-doks.”

Drisson

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Skidding

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Ecury

a close-up of cave drawings and symbols

Énouement

a hand opening a curtain

Keep

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Blinkback

a wall full of pictures and objects