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Wordly: When one letter makes a world of difference
Posted on: 23 July 2009 | Comments (0)

This week, The Wrap brings you Washington Post's Mensa winners where just by subtracting or changing one letter supplies a new definition.

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Here are the Washington Post's Mensa winners:

Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time

Ignoranus (n.): A person who's both stupid and an asshole

Intaxicaton (n.): Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with

Reintarnation (n.): Coming back to life as a hillbilly

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.

Foreploy (n.): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose ofgetting laid

Giraffiti (n.): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

Sarchasm (n.): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte (v.): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Osteopornosis (n.): A degenerate disease (This one got extra credit)

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.

Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

Glibido (n.) : All talk and no action.

Dopeler Effect (n.): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly

Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web

Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out

Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.


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