# Mensa Word Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mensa-word-game/565536>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 27, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mensa-word-game/565536 "2010-12-27T18:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mensa-word-game/565536/1 "2010-12-27T18:29:04Z")

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I got the following forward from my lame marginally computer illiterate aunt who loves chain mail and offensive forwards. It was one of the few that made me chuckle and I thought it would make a good word game for the Dope. I have no idea if the setup for the email is legitimate and I have no idea if Mensa and the Washington Post are in any way actually involved but that’s not really important. Here’s the text of the message and I’ll let it stand on it’s own.

> [@Silly Forwarded Email](#):
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> 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.
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> Here are the winners:
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> 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
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> 2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
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> 3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
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> 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
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> 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.
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> 6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid..
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> 7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
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> 8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
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> 9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
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> 10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
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> 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.
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> 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
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> 13. Glibido : All talk and no action.
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> 14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
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> 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
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> 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.
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> 17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

So what new definitions can Dopers come up with?

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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mensa-word-game/565536/2 "2010-12-27T20:28:38Z")

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**New** definitions should be easy, as [this thing is as old as the hills](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012600879.html) and gets recycled now and then. I’ve seen it twice now in the past week.

Carry on . . .

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mensa-word-game/565536/3 "2010-12-27T23:22:04Z")

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Jerrymander: The process by which guys named Jerry seem to always end up in proximity to each other

Renaisse’ance: A revolutionary period in which contact with the dead is popularized through inexact science. Or, anytime a Ghost Hunters marathon is on the SyFy channel

Metrognome: A consistently regular little person

Irrregardless: An example of extreme apathy towards accuracy

Determimed: Perseverance in the face of invisible obstacles

Erectronic: Electric devices used for the sole purpose of male stimulation

Romeopathy: Alternative practices, usually performed by teenagers, in an attempt to get themselves laid that have no support in science or common sense