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The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational

TIGERARMY67

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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 : (n) Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation : (v.t.) Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stop 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 : (n) Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
6. Sarchasm: (n) The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
7. Inoculatte: (v.t.) To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis : (n) Terminal coolness.
9. Osteopornosis : (n) A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon : (n) 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: (n) All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler effect: (adv.) 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 colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the week:
17. Ignoranus: (n.)A person who's both stupid and an *smile*.