Foilsick

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Foilsick

adj.
feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to someone—allowing them too clear a view of your pettiness, your anger, your cowardice, your childlike vulnerability—wishing you could somehow take back the moment, discreetly bolting the door after a storm had already blown it off its hinges.

Scottish Gaelic foillsich, to expose.

Midding

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Incidental Contact High

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Sitheless

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Waldosia

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Lackout

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Fardle-Din

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Querinous

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Redesis

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Ecstatic Shock

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Fata Organa

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Feresy

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Fensiveness

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Moledro

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Nachlophobia

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Thrapt

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Foilsick

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Fawtle

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Flashover

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Hanker Sore

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Justing

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Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Lisolia

a bookcase containing objects

Enterhood

adults with stern expressions holding a child

Aimonomia

close-up of a plant with lights glowing in background

Aftergloom

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Agnosthesia

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Nodrophobia

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