Flashover

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Flashover

n.
the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.

In firefighting, a flashover is when all the flammable material in an area combusts all at once.

Fawtle

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Lilo

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Skidding

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Watashiato

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Zverism

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Bye-Over

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Amoransia

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Fensiveness

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Soufrise

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Hickering

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Thrapt

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On Tenderhooks

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Suente

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Rivener

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La Gaudière

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Hubilance

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Semaphorism

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The Mcfly Effect

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Ledsome

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Craxis

a tall house of cards

Ironsick

a group of random devices

Flichtish

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Pax Latrina

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Star-Stuck

a man walking towards a door with a large question mark

Leidenfreude

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Soufrise

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Kenaway

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