Kinchy

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Kinchy

adj.
feeling guilty that you care about your own petty concerns more deeply than faraway cataclysms—that a family spat hurts more than a civil war, that a three-day fever hits you harder than climate change.

Japanese 近視 (kinshi), near-sightedness. A word just shy of kinship. Pronounced “kin-chee.”

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Arroia

people standing on a stage

Trumspringa

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Symptomania

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Idlewild

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Immerensis

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