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.”

Hiddled

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Foreclearing

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Anecdoche

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Nullness

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Ironsick

a group of random devices

Grayshift

a spiral staircase from above