The Washington Post's Style 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: 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 (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 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. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness. 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 grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. Glibido (v): 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 color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating. And the pick of the literature: Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

Lol great selection. And then there are sniglets which are things that do not have an actual word for them. For example, those marks you get on your lower leg after you wear tube socks. There just isn't a word for those! And then theres those times when you attempt to dress yourself and you end up putting both your legs through the same leg-hole in your pants and you are stuck balancing on your feet mashed into a small space while the extra pant-leg hanging off to the side and attracting all sorts of dogs. Find me a word for that and I'll give you a cookie.

They're great, what a cool selection, now I need my inoculatte....

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I can't stop laughing about arachnoleptic fit! That's hilarious!

I'll be using Ignoranus often. It is now a permanent part of my lexicon. I've always liked sniglets. Pielibrium: the point at which the pie's crust out weighs the tip while eating and the pie tips over. Elbonics: The subtle dance your elbows do with the guy next to you in the cinema as you negociate shared armrest realestate. @ MoonGoat Varisock veins: those marks you get on your lower leg after you wear tube socks (Where's my cookie!)

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Liked 'Arachnoleptic fit' the best, and also 'Ignoranus'

Almost in the same vein: "Christmas detonations" (fireworks out of season, or pretty, reflective balls blowing up). "Bar Distension" (when the pub stays open for longer than usual). "Alphabeet" (the A-Z of root vegetables). "Cheeroscuro" (great appluase during the stroboscopic effects at a concert). "Chiarobscuro" (you can't see what's going on properly). Well, that's all I can think of at the mo, 'cos I'm in a state of unebreation... Cheers, Diolma