Typifice

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Typifice

n.
a caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.

Italian tipi fissi, “fixed types,” the stock characters in commedia dell’arte masked improvisational theater. Pronounced “tip-uh-fis.”

Keep

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Insoucism

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Candling

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Solysium

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Elsing

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Hiddled

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Lyssamania

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Vaucasy

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Ioia

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Fool’s Guilt

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The Standard Blues

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Symptomania

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Desanté

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Emodox

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Maugry

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The Giltwrights

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Leidenfreude

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Indosentia

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Hickering

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Catoptric Tristesse

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Scrough

a person working on the sidewalk

Beloiter

a person sitting at a slot machine

Midding

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Anthrodynia

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Ellipsism

a hand clawing at a wall

Treachery Of The Common

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Aponemia

a group of people standing together