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.”

Desanté

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Fitching

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Apolytus

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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Keep

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Loss Of Backing

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Altschmerz

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Maugry

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The Standard Blues

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Flichtish

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The Wends

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Insoucism

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Aesthosis

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Emodox

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Solysium

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Indosentia

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Vaucasy

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Typifice

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Holiette

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Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Siso

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Fardle-Din

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Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Trumspringa

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