Keep

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Keep

n.
an important part of your personality that others seldom see—a secret flaw, a hidden talent, trauma that never comes up, dreams you never mention—that remains a vital part of who you are even if nobody knows it’s there, like the sprawling archives in the attics of museums, packed with works far too priceless to risk being displayed for the public.

From a keep, the innermost tower of a castle.

Lyssamania

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Endzoned

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Candling

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Wellium

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Elsing

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Fool’s Guilt

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Viadne

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Flichtish

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Hiddled

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Fitching

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Rubatosis

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Tarrion

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Nighthawk

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Bareleveling

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Vaucasy

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Ioia

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Typifice

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Povism

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Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Zverism

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Nowlings

a pile of black and white puzzle pieces

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Lap Year

several people racing bicycles uphill in a forest

Altschmerz

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Tarrion

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Loss Of Backing

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