Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take
any
word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing
one
letter and supplying a new definition.
Here are the 2001 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. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting
laid.
4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who
doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit)
8. 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.
9. Glibido: All talk and no action.
10. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
you
have been smoking marijuana.
11. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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