13 Words Not Found in the English Language

My favorites:

Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.

Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language:

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