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n. Sadness among happy younger people.... more

adj. A warm, positive feeling of togetherness and coziness.... more

n. A sarcastic or mocking smile.... more

n. The amount of water that can be held in one hand.... more

n. The suspension of disbelief in storytelling.... more

n. The awareness that someone you've known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.... more

pl n. Long sparse sideburns of rail guards.... more

adj. Loose lip after dentist injection.... more

n rare colonial Indian. Leg rash from polo.... more

n. Word for illegitimate child.... more

adj. Joke that becomes wearisome.... more

participial vb. Jaw movements after dentist.... more

n. The state of being simultaneously entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the cosmos.... more

n. A hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled; a bottomless hunger for more.... more

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

n. The tendency for future goals and benchmarks to feel huge when viewed in advance, only to fade into banality as soon as you've achieved them.... more

n. The delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind that infuses the world with an aura of meaning.... more