Thrapt

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Thrapt

adj.
awed at the impact someone has had on your life, feeling intimidated by how profoundly they helped shape your identity, having served as a ghostwriter of a work that nevertheless only appears under your name.

From thrapped, drawn tight, as with nautical ropes + rapt, carried away with emotion.

Solysium

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Offtides

close-up of a chromed metal object

Lackout

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Daguerreologue

Daguer-reologue

a man sitting in blurred silhouette at a desk

Elsing

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Walloway

water faucet that seems to emanate from the ground