Merrenness

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Merrenness

n.
the lulling isolation of driving late at night—floating through the void in an otherworldly hum, trailing red jewels in the darkness, your high beams sweeping back and forth like a lighthouse.

Hungarian merre, where? in which direction? Pronounced “mair-uhn-nis.”

Merrenness

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Exulansis

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Trumspringa

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Justing

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Mahpiohanzia

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Elsewise

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The Til

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

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Jouska

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Ghough

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Ameneurosis

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Gobo

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Vulture Shock

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Licotic

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Occhiolism

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Ringlorn

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Zielschmerz

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Ne’er-Be-Gone

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Bareleveling

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Anechosis

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Symptomania

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Craxis

a tall house of cards

Merrenness

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Vaucasy

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Treachery Of The Common

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Tarrion

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Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine