Foilsick

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Foilsick

adj.
feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone—allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice, your childlike vulnerability—wishing you could somehow take back the moment, discreetly bolting the door after a storm had already blown it off its hinges.

Scottish Gaelic foillsich, to expose.

Los Vidados

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Thrapt

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Fardle-Din

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Falesia

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Nachlophobia

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La Gaudière

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Dead Reckoning

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Moledro

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Hickering

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Anderance

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Flashover

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Ochisia

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Fata Organa

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Hanker Sore

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Soufrise

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The Kinder Surprise

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Semaphorism

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Zverism

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Midding

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Nementia

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Proluctance

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Hiddled

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Harke

a dreamlike image of a person's face over water

Ludiosis

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The Standard Blues

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands