Skidding

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Skidding

v.

the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt.

From skidding, going farther than intended out of inertia + kidding, joking around.

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Midding

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Sitheless

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Waldosia

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Lackout

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Fardle-Din

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Querinous

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Redesis

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Ecstatic Shock

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Fata Organa

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Feresy

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Fensiveness

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Moledro

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Nachlophobia

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Thrapt

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Foilsick

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Fawtle

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Flashover

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RANDOM Words

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Fygophobia

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Amoransia

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Altschmerz

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Affogatia

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a blurry image of a house on the road

Proluctance

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