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Hey Wordsmyths! This game looks like fun.  The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2 Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an asshole. 3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. 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 6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.. 7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high 8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. 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. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido : All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
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I've read several of these lists; they're always hilarious.
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SANG-FROID (taken from Anu's list of words for the week.) F > D SANG-DROID (pronounced saang drwa) A cool droid that has already sung. 
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My all-time favorite among these, for sheer economy of expression, is
IGNORANUS - a stupid asshole
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I don't know, wolfman, the emailed copy wasn't dated.  Today's word: MELANCHOLY minus L MEANCHOLY: Mood sublimation for people too mean to cry. 
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MELANCHOLY
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MELANCHOVY -- cantaloupe with fish (pesca con melon)
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And in answer to my own question: It depends. Anywhere from 2008 to 2010, or maybe even 1998. See for yourself.
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No matter. In point we might have fun creating our own changed words list using Anu's weekly words; doncha think? Well I will nonetheless. Here's another... SEMINAL L > T SEMINAT : a short gnat.
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SEKINAL -- a sleeping pill for the orthograhically challenged, a.k.a. Red Devil
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Monday's word: SILHOUETTE add S silhousette: A flat house without any rooms
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and I would add that it's a small house. ;¬ )
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Today's word
CASANOVA
Change C to N
NASANOVA - the name of a nearby star in nova discovered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The X-rays produced by the star's exposion will reach Earth on 4-1-13 at 1:02 CDT and sterilize the Earth of all lifeforms bigger than a bug. Good-bye.
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CASANORA -- Title of classic Ibsen play, when it opened in Madrid
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CATANOVA - exploding felines? or just a new cat?
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Today's Word: ZANTIPPEZ > P PAN-TIPPE: a vile, henpecking, dominating, high and mighty, loathsome, ugly, gasping, ill-tempered woman. In other words, an all-inclusive nag. 
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XANTHIPPY - Socrates' wife is getting a bit large in the beam, isn't she?
XANTHIPPO - an African herbivore that's large and yellow and lives mostly in the water
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Todays's word:
SHRAPNEL
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SHERAPNEL: a powder explosive without balls.
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STRAPNEL - I heard that starting next week you won't be able to buy ladies' garments any more with anything to keep them on your shoulders...
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meaning they will be going topless??
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Today's word: DON JUANAdd T DON'T JUAN - a Don Juan who lacks romantic skills. 
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add "U"
DONUT JUAN
a cop on break
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DON YUAN -- Head of the Chinese Mafia; specialty is money laundering
or even DON JOAN -- the Maid of Orleans gets no respect
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DONNA & WANDA
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DONA & JUANA
combatants in arms in the New Military of the USA
Bill Mauldin style.
Maudlin?
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Anu's Word of the Day:
OVERMORROW: the day after tomorrow
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OVERTMORROW: a tomorrow that will answer it all
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Just a quick response to the Tsonga word Rhwe. I ran the word by a friend who is a Tsonga translator from South Africa (Tsonga is his native language). He told me he is unfamiliar with that word. So, Word.A.Day, you are correct.
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AWAD 16 January: SALIVATE
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SALTIVATE: to go dormant while there are condiments on the table.
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SALIVOTE - How mucha you gimme to picka your candidate?
SALICATE - to coat with aspirin
SALIVASE - to put salt in the flower display container
SALIRATE - No, Mr Maglie, I know you're angry but please don't bean me with that baseball!
SALINATE - to spit salt water. No, wait a minute...
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Anu's Word of the Day:
FILIPENDULOUS
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MILIPENDULOUS - the thinnest thread that one can hang onto, i.e. a mil.
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Today's word: paresthesia or paraesthesia
PRONUNCIATION: (par-uhs-THEE-zhuh, -zhee-)
MEANING: noun: A sensation of pricking, tingling, burning, etc. on the skin.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek para- (at, beyond) + aisthesis (sensation or perception). Ultimately from the Indo-European root au- (to perceive)
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PARAESTHESIS: - a thesis on intuitive perceptions
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PARENTHESIA - My Mom and Dad are so unfeeling...
BARASTHESIA - It's so cold in the bathroom I can't even feel the toilet when I sit down!
Incidentally, PARESTHESIS is actually a variant spelling for -ESIA. But I like your definition better!
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Today's word: armscye or armseye PRONUNCIATION:(AHRM-sy, -zy) MEANING:noun: An opening in a garment for attaching a sleeve; an armhole. ETYMOLOGY:From arm, from Old English earm + scye (armhole), from Scottish, reanalyzed as arm's eye. ___________________________________________________ add F FARMSEYE: an old decrepit dog who barks bloody murder when strangers come around. And to him anything that moves is a stranger.
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ARTSEYE - Undergraduates' shorthand for one of the three major branches of learning, renamed to make it comparable to the other two. Thus we have Natural Sciences (NatSci), Social Sciences (SocSci), and Art Sciences, (formerly "Humanities," now ArtSeye).
{Speaking of Barasthesia - does it work any better if we call it the outhouse instead of the bathroom?) /guffaw
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Today's word: onomastics
PRONUNCIATION:(on-uh-MAS-tiks)
MEANING: noun: The study of proper names or of terms used in a specialized field.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek onomastikos (of names), from onomazein (to name), from onoma (name). Earliest documented use: 1904.
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ONOMASTICKS- a stack of sticks named after themselves.
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ohnomastic: the instant you realize you've bitten down on something you shouldn't have. Cousin to the ohnosecond.
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OBOMASTICS -- definitely NOT a Teflon President !
(Feel free to attach whatever bias appeals to you. )
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OBOMASTICS: Obama's tics. - Oddly Oboma doesn't twitch when a fly lands on his face, nor does he twitch when he is telling the truth. Oboma twitches a lot.
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Anu's Word of the Day: impetuous PRONUNCIATION: (im-PECH-oo-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Marked by impulsiveness or impatience. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin impetus (assault, impetus), from impetere (to attack), from in- (in) + petere (to go to). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly). ______________________________________________ umpetuous: combining form of "um"and "petuous" i,e. hesitant but overeager.
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IMPETUONS - Sub-atomic particles that behave however they want to, without thinking of the consequences. These so-called "Devil particles" function as "God anti-particles:" when an Impetuon and a Higgs Boson collide, they vanish in mutual annihilation, releasing monstrous amounts of energy...
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