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.”

Nullness

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Amuse-Douche

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Momophobia

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Anaphasia

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Burn Upon Reentry

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Adronitis

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Hemeisis

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Mimeomia

a person wearing an animal onesie garment

Hobsmacked

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Poggled

a person studying a book with a magnifying glass

Hailbound

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Watashiato

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Aesthosis

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Foreclearing

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Tornomov

a cloudy sky and landscape

The Standard Blues

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Los Vidados

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Candling

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Suente

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Trueholding

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