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n. The feeling of butterflies in your stomach from something romantic or cute.... more

n. Homesickness for a place you can't return to or that never existed.... more

n. Distance a reindeer can travel before needing rest.... more

n. Someone who only takes warm showers, implying they're a wimp.... more

n. A gift given to make up for bad behavior.... more

n. A dreamer or impractical person.... more

adj. Feeling small and alone in a bustling city.... more

n. A twinge of sadness that there's no frontier left.... more

n. A person who has no idea where their home is, leaving their emotional compass free to swing wildly as they move from place to place.... more

n. The unsettling awareness of the world moving on in your absence.... more

n. A feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you'll never meet.... more

n. A conversational hint indicating a personal insight without further elaboration.... more

n. The fear that the role you once occupied in someone's life could be refilled without a second thought.... more

v. Compulsively turning away from works of art that are frustratingly good.... more

n. The feeling of emptiness after completing a long and arduous process.... more

n. A place that seems significant to others but not to you, leaving you trying to feel something.... more

n. A pang of shame from an embarrassing adolescent memory.... more

adj. Feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone.... more

n. Something you've misunderstood for years without knowing it.... more

n. A state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world.... more

adj. Humbled by readily entrusting your life to strangers without a second thought.... more

n. The state of being so familiar with someone that you can be in a room with them without thinking or speaking.... more

n. A feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all.... more

adj. Sensing the judgment of your future self looking over your shoulder.... more

adj. Struck by the poignant strangeness of other people's homes.... more

n. A humble pulse of gratification felt when participating in civic duties.... more

n. The longing to see how other people live their lives when they're not in public.... more

n. The ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window.... more

n. A random image from your distant past that leaps back into your attention.... more

n. A mysterious aura of loneliness felt in certain places.... more

adj. Feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places.... more

n. The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.... more

adj. Afraid of being mentally deranged and everyone knowing but not mentioning it.... more

n archaic. Ancient curse on Heathrow's land.... more

pl n. Bone buttons in bacon sandwiches.... more

n. Replacing chess pieces with ornaments.... more

n. Tray in chocolate box to fake two layers.... more

n. Pyramid of tin cans at supermarket entrance.... more

n. Tiny fart instead of expected loud one.... more

n. Someone else's more interesting newspaper.... more

n. Bus cushion indicating breakdown.... more

n. Safe place forgotten.... more

adj. Institutional green shade.... more

participial vb. Pretending not home for carol-singers.... more