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Nugatory — Of no value or importance; trifling, worthless, or having no force — the polished word for something utterly futile.

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Rapture — A state of intense, almost overwhelming joy or delight — the feeling of being so absorbed in a moment you are lifted clean out of yourself.

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Maturescence — The process of ripening or coming to full maturity — that quiet moment when something reaches its most complete and perfect state.

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Silliness — A state of playful absurdity; the quality of being delightfully foolish without consequence or care.

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Fulguration — A sudden, blinding flash of brilliance — a moment when understanding or beauty strikes like lightning, illuminating everything at once.

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Halation — The soft, glowing halo of light that spreads beyond a bright source — the bloom around a lamp, a candle, or the setting sun.

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Acedia — A listless, joyless indifference — not sadness exactly, but a hollow inability to care about anything, even things you love.

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Perfervid — Intensely and passionately ardent; fervid to the point of near-excess — a zeal that burns from deep conviction rather than mere enthusiasm.

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Mumpish — Sulkily silent and gloomy; withdrawn into a dull, wordless sulk without quite knowing why.

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Starkling — A sudden involuntary start; the act of being startled.

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Scintilla — A tiny trace or spark of something; the smallest possible amount of a quality or feeling.

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Sidereal — Of or measured by the stars; relating to the distant star-filled cosmos beyond our ordinary sense of time.

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Galumph — To move in a clumsy, bounding, triumphant manner — with more enthusiasm than grace.

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Sillabub — A frothy, whipped dessert of cream curdled with wine or cider; also used for anything delightfully insubstantial or frothy.

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Adumbrate — To outline or sketch in shadow; to foreshadow or give a dim, partial indication of something yet to come.

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Languor — A dreamy, pleasurable heaviness of mind and body — the delicious limpness of being too content to move or think.

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Madeleine — A trivial sensory detail — a smell, sound, or taste — that suddenly unlocks a vivid, involuntary rush of memory.

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Dégringolade — A rapid, chaotic tumble downward — the sudden, undignified collapse of something that was once held in high regard.

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Meropia — Partial blindness; seeing only a fragment of what is there — by extension, the human tendency to perceive only a sliver of the whole truth.

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Ruminate — To turn something over and over in the mind; to dwell on thoughts slowly and at length, especially with a brooding or reflective quality.

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