Thank you to my fiancee for finding this for me:<\/p>\n
The Washington Post\\’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
\nchanging one letter, and supply a new definition.<\/p>\n
Here are this year\\’s winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real word.<\/p>\n
Some are terrifically innovative:<\/p>\n
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.<\/p>\n
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.<\/p>\n
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little
\nsign of breaking down in the near future.<\/p>\n
4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.<\/p>\n
5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.<\/p>\n
6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn\\’t get it.<\/p>\n
7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.<\/p>\n
8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.<\/p>\n
9 Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)<\/p>\n
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
\nserious bummer.<\/p>\n
11. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.<\/p>\n
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.<\/p>\n
13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.<\/p>\n
14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you\\’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you\\’re eating.<\/p>\n
And the #1 pick:<\/p>\n
17. Ignoranus: A person who\\’s both stupid and an asshole!!<\/p>\n
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