Best New Words

Which is your favorite?  We like #6.

  The Washington Post's Mensa 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. Read them carefully. Each is an
           artificial word with only one letter altered to form a real
           word. Some are terrifically innovative:

          1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting  a tax refund, which lasts
           until you realize it was your money to start with.

          2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

          3. 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.

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

          5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

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

          7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are
           running late.

          8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

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

          10. 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.

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

          12. Glibido: All talk and no action.

          13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem
           smarter when they come at you rapidly.

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

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

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

          And the #1 pick:

          17. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.