New Words
          The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.  Here are this year's winners.
          Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered.  Some are terrifically innovative.  This would be a great party game - maybe.  (Are we up to this?)

1.    Intaxication:  Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you      realize it was your money to start with.   2.    Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3.    Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people, who stops bright ideas from penetrating.  The Bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4.    Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
5.    Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6.    Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get  it.
7.    Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 8.    Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.  (?) I don't get it.
9.   *Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.  (This one got extra credit.***) 10.  Karmageddon:  It's like, when everybody is sending of all these really bad vibes, right?  And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 11.  Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 12.  Glibido: All talk and no action.
13.  Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
14.  Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15.  Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

 

-original author unknown, received via e-mail

 


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