Words

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:38 am

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. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically innovative:

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. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

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.

9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

10. 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.

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.

And the pick of the lot:

17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ★■◆●.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:13 am

I've been cashtrated before

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:36 am

turditude---a really depraved experience on the loo.

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:55 am

they're not from this year woodchip - from 2001

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:23 am

roid wrote:they're not from this year woodchip - from 2001

I guess those were delated.

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:28 am

LOL that was bwilliant

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:40 am

Will Robinson wrote:
roid wrote:they're not from this year woodchip - from 2001
I guess those were delated.

indead

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:47 am

vertigo-go; the feeling one gets while playing the Descent series after hearing the lock-on of a missle.

nice post woodchip

very entertaining

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:58 am

loly - a drug in small pill form that induces hysterical laughter.
hysterile - so not funny.
mossile - a very slow missile (mega)

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:11 am

formicate--Laminate work top that tends to prick you when splintered.

edit:lol, the wife just pointed out that there is such a word as formicate...you live and learn eh!

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:16 am

Holympics - when all sides of a sport competition pray to the same god for victory pre-game.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:23 am

Does biatch fall under this category as well?

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:31 am

Faustralia--- the action of men going down under...

....ok enough i must stop this...what did you do woody??

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:34 am

defenstrate - to throw someone from a window in self defence.
catastrophew - when you solve a big problem in the first few seconds of panic over it.
chamouflage - deer skin camouflage.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:03 am

Fellatiow: teeth

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:44 am

Defenstrate's a real word, Roid

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:45 am

nono that's defenEstrate: to throw someone from a window (with no reference to self defence)

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:46 am

No kidding! Learn something new every day! Nice words.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:47 am

raccon: Lone Ranger masked critter that is clever at getting free food from you.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:21 pm

roid wrote:they're not from this year woodchip - from 2001

Nitdik: to uselessly point out something to score points

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:27 pm

Nice one woody....really made me giggle out loud.

.......better than heh! No?