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The New Dictionary
Ampurageon: The loss of a limb in a violent accident caused by a careless person.
Artificial Deselection: Using practical intelligence to remove the genes you don't want your kids to have.
Balmora: The growing wilder, more complicated and more personal the fantasies as loneliness increases.
Crusto: When a neighbour clears their throat vigorously while you are meditating.
Donol: An intentional fast from hypothetical conversations.
Espargo: The loss of momentum due to doubt.
Exology: Knowledge originating outside our solar system.
Fal: Being vulnerable to assimilating the emotions of others.
Gareldom: Devoting your life to refining a skill of which the critical measure is subjective, e.g. acting, writing, gymnastic harp vaulting.
Hors: A horse that does not know it is a horse.
Hrse: A horse that is self-aware.
Huel: Mourning unobtainable perfection.
Huripdes: A person whose methods you would not trust if they had not already made a lot of money.
Jixed: That feeling when the entire future you fantasized of sharing with a person crumbles into nothing when they use incorrect punctuation.
Klube: To habitually renege self-imposed deadlines to the point of futility.
Kuste: The inability to find the perfect settings for your adjustable chair after someone else has sat in it.
Labing: Watching a coronation on YouTube while a family member vacuums the living room.
Mirk: When a thing is repurposed for a purpose worse than its original use.
Nuce: The sharp discomfort of realizing a set thing is no longer certain.
Sintol: The last privilege of claiming you did not know before you irrevocably do.
Scosh: The breadcrumbs left behind in butter.
Tipurl: The courage of a pigeon to stomp through a crowded plain.
Tonk: The exclamation a river stone makes when it hits the side of a baboon's head.
Tredbalm: The courage not to tell an incredibly brilliant joke for the sake of not offending an acquaintance.
Tromboclis: The sensation of watching someone the moment before they step in poo, knowing you are too late to do anything about it.
Visce: When explaining the significance of an experience causes the realization that you actually can't and the pressure to articulate it erodes its original magnificence.
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