Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Rookish

adj.
feeling a vague longing for some sort of monarch to look down upon us from a high and distant castle, which you’d imagine would pacify the squabbling chaos of civic life and drastically narrow the range of choices and issues you have to think about, finally freeing you up from bearing the microscopic fraction of a crown that forever hangs over your head.

From the chess move of castling, which is when a rook rushes to protect the king, nearly swapping places with him.

Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Galagog

a person alone in a snowy desolate landscape

Boorance

a group of objects on a table

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Hanker Sore

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Lilo

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Mcfeely

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Trueholding

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Midsummer

a person standing in a garden holding a clock

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Viadne

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Drisson

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Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench