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.

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Licotic

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Leidenfreude

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Kairosclerosis

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Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Foilsick

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Elosy

a blurry image of a person in a subway car

Ioia

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The Giltwrights

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Keep

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Kuebiko

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The Mcfly Effect

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