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Placate

to make someone who is angry or hostile, less angry; make calmer; make more reasonable

Quote Bot

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Anaïs Nin - “Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate. #QuoteBot

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Felicitous

well chosen or suited to the circumstances; appropriate secondary meaning: pleasing or fortunate

Auspicious Items 🔮 Horoscope Robot (v2.5)

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If you were born in the year of the Ox, place a plastic bottle of sardines in your closet before bed for a felicitous weekend. ✨ #chinesezodiac #ox #spells #bot

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Pithy

concise; expressive without using many words; terse; crisp; succinct

Tropicalfreeze21 (In Canada land)

@tropicalfreeze21.bsky.social

I really like using letterboxd but damn every review doesn't have to be a pithy 1 line attempt at humor. I promise it's ok to be genuine.

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Sublime

lofty thought or lofty language; beautiful or outstanding; exalted; elevated; glorious; superb; splendid; noble

Clare Sarah

@curlyhairedgirl.bsky.social

#totp from the sublime to this. 😭

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Symbiosis

when there are two organisms living in close proximity to each other and by associating with each other they have an advantage (ex. bacteria in your stomach)

🔞 Meat 🔞

@vore-enjoyer-420.bsky.social

I wanna get eaten by a pred so I can complete my next life cycle and become some kind of invasive but symbiotic creature that lives inside them..
Wrapped around their organs making sure everything is safe and good :) it won't hurt but it'll make you hungrier though really that's a bonus isn't it?

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Debutante

an upper-class young woman making a debut into society

La Brújula 24

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Boca venció a Sarmiento con goles de Velasco y el debutante Flores

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Pulchritude

beauty; fairness; loveliness; good-looking; attractiveness (used in literary terms)

Lone

@lonelytiefling.bsky.social

I'm going to start referring to my mental ailments by names that would be on my admission to an asylum in the victorian period

I don't have ADD I've got wandering brain, I don't have dysmorphia i have a professed absence of pulchritude

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Deference

to show respectful submission; yielding to someone else (generally given to someone who has more experience or senior to you); dutifulness

Ergative Absolutive

@ergative-abs.bsky.social

I'm working with a former PhD student on revisions of part of her thesis for publication. Every interaction is an odd combination of her telling me (correctly) that I'm wrong, while simultaneously unable to shake off the learned deference from when she was my student, rather than a grown up Dr.

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