obscure sorrows Quiz 1

N. The feeling of emptiness after a long and arduous process is finally complete. Having finished school, recovered from surgery, or gone home at the end of your wedding, which leaves you relieved that it’s over, but missing the stress that organized your life into a mission.

• Aimonomia

• Etterath

• Zverism

• Malotype

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

N. The wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other like dogs, staring unabashedly at interesting faces, reveling in a beautiful voice like a ping in the radio.

• Zysia

• Xeno

• Licotic

• Zverism

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

N. The smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers, a warm smile, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence - moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.

• Xeno

• Malotype

• Zysia

• Aimonomia

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

Adj. Anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing- a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a tv show they’re lucky enough to watch for the first time; which prompts you to continually poll their face waiting for the inevitable rush of awe, only to cringe when you discover all the work’s flaws shining through the very first time.

• Zverism

• Etterath

• Malotype

• Licotic

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

N. The fear of learning the name of something- a bird, constellation, an attractive stranger- will somehow ruin in, inadvertently transforming a lucky discovery into a conceptual husk pinned in a glass case, leaving one less mystery fluttering around in the universe.

• Aimonomia

• Malotype

• Xeno

• Zverism

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

N. A certain person who embodies all the things you like the least about yourself. A seeming caricature of your worst tendencies- which leaves you feeling repulsed and fascinated in equal measure, having stumbled upon a role model of exactly the kind of person you never want to be.

• Licotic

• Etterath

• Malotype

• Zysia

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

N. The sense that you were born too early in history, all too aware of how crude and backward the present can be, feeling tired of having to sit through so much clunky exposition and slow burning suspense, when all you want to do is skip ahead to find out what happens next.

• Zysia

• Licotic

• Zverism

• Xeno

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E