Wildred

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Wildred

adj.
feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places—a clearing in the forest, a windswept field of snow, a rest area in the middle of nowhere—which makes you feel like you’ve just intruded on a conversation that had nothing to do with you, where even the gravel beneath your feet and the trees overhead are holding themselves back to a pointed, inhospitable silence.

From wild + dread. Pronounced “wil-drid.”

Foreclearing

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Feresy

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Furosha

a storm raging in the sky over a building

Hemeisis

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Moledro

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Mogging Folly

a person sitting on a bench