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Playing with Words

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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 supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners:

  • Foreploy: any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of deceiving the opposite sex.
  • Tatyr: a lecherous Mr. Potato Head.
  • Doltergeist: a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.
  • Giraffiti: vandalism spray-painted very, very high, such as on an overpass.
  • Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.
  • Contratemps: the resentment permanent workers feel toward the fill-in workers.
  • Impotience: eager anticipation by men awaiting their Viagra prescription.
  • Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.
  • Inoculatte: to take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
  • Hipatitis: terminal coolness.
  • Guillozine: a magazine for executioners.
  • Suckotash: a dish consisting of corn, lima beans and tofu.
This entry is located in the following unit: Focusing on Words Newsletter #02 (page 1)
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(based on words from The Washington Post's "Style Invitational" in which readers were given the opportunity to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and then to provide a new definition for the modified word)