Rasque

close-up of the shards of a broken vase

Rasque

n.
a moment you instantly wish you could take back, feeling a pulse of dread right after crossing the point of no return—a blurted confession, a hurled insult, a final decision you’d been waffling over for months— wanting to take just one step backward in time, reverting to the way things used to be, in the halcyon days of just a minute ago.

From rue, to regret + bourrasque, a tempest. Pronounced “rask.”

Karanoia

a neat stack of white paper

Wellium

Cover image for the Wellium word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Routwash

Cover image for the Routwash word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Soufrise

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