Oh! The Places We'll Go

Sam. 26. NJ.

Writer. Grad student. Happily married. Animal aficionado. Lover of oceans and mountains and books and coffee. Relative of the Jersey Devil. Occasional singer.

Working on a children's novel. Much of what I reblog/post serves as inspiration and material for my writing. Lots of GPOY and weight loss stuff.

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A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words →

Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips.
Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.
Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.
Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.
Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
Autolatry - The worship of one’s self.
Cagamosis - An unhappy marriage.
Gargalesthesia - The sensation caused my tickling.
Capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
Lalochezia - The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
Cataglottism - Kissing with tongue.
Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss.
Brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunder.
Grapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene pictures.
Agelast - A person who never laughs.
Wanweird - An unhappy fate.
Dystopia - Am imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.
Petrichor - The smell of dry rain on the ground.
Anagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
Malapert - Clever in manners of speech.
Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.
Concilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

Ayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads no where.
Baisemain - A kiss on the hand.
Druxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
Mamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.

Duende and dsytopia are the only ones I’ve heard.

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staceythinx:

DebraLee Wiseberg photographs aging metal with colorful results.

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theanimalblog:

A baby Asian elephant, born only two days before, slips on his wobbly legs and gets support from his mother Nova in his enclosure at Tierpark Berlin zoo.  Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

theanimalblog:

A baby Asian elephant, born only two days before, slips on his wobbly legs and gets support from his mother Nova in his enclosure at Tierpark Berlin zoo.  Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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Symposium

Symposium

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New jewelry!

New jewelry!

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