Expands ones vocabulary

[Wallachie]

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:

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 that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,

unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose

of getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the

subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of

sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you

are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one

got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is

sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like,

the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting

through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13.! Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to

seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance

performed just after you've accidentally walked through a

spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito,

that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot

be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in

the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a55hole.

[AntW]

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