Flashover

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Flashover

n.
the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.

In firefighting, a flashover is when all the flammable material in an area combusts all at once.

Amoransia

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Watashiato

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Foilsick

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Redesis

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Mottleheaded

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On Tenderhooks

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Lackout

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Bye-Over

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Attriage

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Querinous

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Lookaback

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Mauerbauertraurigkeit

Mauerbauer-traurigkeit

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Antiophobia

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Immerensis

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Feresy

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Heartworm

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Hubilance

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Pax Latrina

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Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Present-Tense

a close-up of a stopwatch

Nyctous

a person walking in the middle of a street

Nemotia

a city with clouds of smoke

Foreclearing

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Heartworm

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Leidenfreude

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Ghough

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