empathy

Empathy is like sympathy but suggests an even closer relationship.

Sympathetic people try to be understanding and compassionate, but people who have empathy feel that they are inside someone else's mind and emotional being, feel that they are the other person for a while. They live with and share the other's joy, sorrow, pain, fear, love. Readers are often empathetic toward (identify with") one or more fictional characters.

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blinkard

One with bad eyes; a stupid or obtuse person; someone who ignores or avoids something.

The old blinkard didn't know what hit him because he just couldn't pay attention to where he was going.

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borrowed light

If you are in a room with no windows or other direct sources of light, and if light enters from an adjoining lighted room, the indirect illumination is borrowed light.

We worked in the library and had only the borrowed light from the adjacent room to work with that night.

towny

The qualities associated with towns rather than with the country or the city, and towniness is a noun that implies these qualities.

She, in her towny way, thought that she had to get into everyone's business.

thutter

To make a dull, repetitive sound.

She knew that her heart would thutter when she saw Blaine walk up the spiral staircase. That is when she would slowly step down in her slow, practiced pace.

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Tulips on the organ

A beautiful arrangement.

She put tulips on the organ

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Wikipedia Scholar

A person who attempts to demonstrate knowledge obtained by searching on Wikipedia. This person has no legitimate degree from an accredited institution in said subject/topic, but will use the online encyclopedia to prove their point on the topic being discussed.

After reading a ridiculous comment from someone that posted a link:

"Oh look, a Wikipedia Scholar is trying to prove himself again."

"Oh the Wikipedia Scholar thinks be correct, because he thinks he has a good source of information."

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