Mensa - new words
Some oldies but goodies, a couple of new ones...
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 from a real
word. Some are terrifically innovative:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax return, which lasts until you realize
it was your money to start with.
2. Reintardation: 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 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 coffe intraveneously 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, 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.
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