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.”

Jouska

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Zverism

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Fellchaser

a blurred shadow of a person in a dark room

Skidding

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Ludiosis

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Covalent Bond

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