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pronunciation | ‘GE-bel (GEE-bel)
submitted by | single-espresso
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Russian characters | гибель

The most beautiful Russian word I’ve ever learned. Гибель.

by Alyson Provax - Durations (2012)

n. fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.

n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.

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