I Want You To Imagine A Ten Year Old Version Of Yourself Sitting Right There On This Couch. Now This

— Sylvia Plath, from The Bell Jar

OOIDAL

[adjective]

shaped like an egg; oolitic.

Etymology: derived from the Greek oion, “egg”.

[Vladimir Kush]

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PERVIGILIUM

[noun]

1. a watching all night; a vigil; a night vigil.

2. Pathology: disinclination to sleep; wakefulness.

3. a nocturnal festival in honour of a god, especially the Bona Dea.

Etymology: from Latin, “the vigil”, “a devotional watch”.

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CONTRISTATION

[noun]

the action of being sad; the state of being saddened; sorrowful.

Etymology: from Latin con- (with) +‎ trīstis (sad, unhappy, melancholy, morose, sorrowful, mournful) + -tion (a suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs).

[Megan Majewski]

This very rare all-white humpback seriously looks like a ghost. Watch this hauntingly beautiful animal here. 

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"Not a queen, a khaleesi"

the great bear rainforest in british columbia is one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world, with twenty five thousand square miles of mist shrouded fjords and densely forested islands that are home to white furred black bears.

neither albino nor polar bear, these rare black bears (there are fewer than five hundred) are known as kermode bears, or what the gitga’at first nation call mooksgm’ol, the spirit bear — a word they did not speak to european fur traders lest the bears be discovered and hunted. to this day, it remains taboo to hunt a spirit bear, or to mention them to outsiders.

the white fur in these bears is triggered by a recessive mutation of the same gene associated with red hair and fair skin in humans. though it remains unclear as to how the trait arose (or disappeared), it is especially pronounced on certain islands.

photos by (click pic) paul nicklen x, fabrice simon and paul burwell

INFAUST

[adjective]

unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.

Etymology: from Latin infaustus; prefix in- (not) + faustus (fortunate, lucky).

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