Endzoned

Endzoned

n.
the hollow feeling of having gotten exactly what you thought you wanted, only to learn that it didn’t make you happy.

In sports, the endzone is the final goal, the end of the line—but at a certain point you have to drop the ball.

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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Moriturism

a person resting in the back seat of a car

Lackout

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Licotic

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Tirosy

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Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Fygophobia

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Nementia

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Keyframe

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Kuebiko

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