Rookish

a stone tower with a person seated on top

Rookish

adj.
feeling a vague longing for some sort of monarch to look down upon us from a high and distant castle, which you’d imagine would pacify the squabbling chaos of civic life and drastically narrow the range of choices and issues you have to think about, finally freeing you up from bearing the microscopic fraction of a crown that forever hangs over your head.

From the chess move of castling, which is when a rook rushes to protect the king, nearly swapping places with him.

Hubilance

Cover image for the Hubilance word card on the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Starlorn

snow flakes in the dark

Archimony

a person looking at broken furniture

Austice

a leaf imprint in the mud

Suerza

a tunnel with a light emanating from the end