Wytai

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Wytai

n.
a feature of modern civilization that suddenly strikes you as absurd and grotesque—from pets and milk drinking to organ transplants, life insurance, and fiction—part of a rich legacy of absurdity that dates all the way back to the moment our ancestors first hauled themselves out of the slime, but could not for the life of them remember what they got up to do.

Acronym of When You Think About It. Pronounced “wahy-tahy.”

Wollah

a person with shapes raining on them

Scabulous

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Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Future-Tense

a person looking at their reflection

Flichtish

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Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples