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.

Anderance

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Suente

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Zverism

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Falesia

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Mottleheaded

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Skidding

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Dead Reckoning

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Soufrise

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Etherness

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Hubilance

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Los Vidados

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Ochisia

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Amoransia

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Heartworm

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Immerensis

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Hickering

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The Mcfly Effect

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Hiddled

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On Tenderhooks

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O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Moledro

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Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Aesthosis

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Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Alpha Exposure

a close-up of a baby with diffusion filter