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Pagedrift
(n.) The quiet exit of your attention from a page your eyes keep reading anyway, noticed four paragraphs later when you have to go back and find the last sentence you can honestly claim.
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Namefog
(n.) The total blank that arrives at the exact moment you begin to introduce two people, one of whom you have known for eleven years.
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Freezerhope
(n.) The faith that the unlabelled container at the back of the freezer contains something good, sustained by never opening it.
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Bagpride
(n.) The quiet private triumph of getting the entire shop into one bag, felt by somebody who will never be able to tell anyone about it.
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Pressumption
(n.) The firm private belief that pressing the lift button a second time makes the lift arrive sooner.
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Aislefret
(n.) The anxiety of choosing a supermarket queue, immediately followed by the certainty that you have chosen wrong.
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Crumbdiplomacy
(n.) The long, wordless negotiation conducted over the last biscuit on the plate, in which everybody's goal is to eat it while appearing not to want it.
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Lidfaith
(n.) The serene confidence with which you carry a full takeaway cup whose lid you have not actually checked.
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Portelude
(n.) The blank half-second at a door you have used a thousand times, in which you have no idea whether it pushes or pulls.
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Bramblewait
(n.) The pause with your hand already in the hedge, spent deciding that the blackberry you can reach is not the one you deserve.