Vulture Shock
The nagging sense that no matter how many days you spend exploring a foreign country, you never quite…
Midsummer
A feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth…
Dialecstatic
Hearing a person with a thick accent pronounce a certain phrase—the Texan “cooler,” the South African “bastard,” the…
Funkenzwangsvorstellung
The instinctive trance of a campfire in the dark, spending hours roasting and watching as it settles and…
Inerrata
A kind of mistake you wouldn’t take back even if you could; the reluctance to disown a broken…
Nazlanmak
Essentially, nazlanmak is the Turkish word for saying no and meaning yes. Nazlanmak means to feign reluctance or…
Typewriter
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the…
Coddiwomple
A relatively new slang term, this fun unofficial word means “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a…
Paracosm
A paracosm is a phenomenon in which a richly detailed, meticulously crafted imaginary world is created in one’s…
Quaintrelle
This word describes a woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes. A quaintrelle enjoys the finer…
Hanker Sore
Finding a person so attractive it actually kinda pisses you off. Coined by John Koenig in The Dictionary…
Myötähäpeä
The feeling of shame you experience on the behalf of another person or a character when they do…
Pages of Life
Life has a thousand pages—love and scorn, Hope and adventure, poverty and sin, Despair and glory, loneliness forlorn,…
Farewell
Farewell! For in that word, that fatal word, howe’er We promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair. PHOTO CREDIT…