The Washington Post’s Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

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: (adj.),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: (v.),To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
8. Hipatitis: (adj.),Terminal coolness.
9. 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.
10. Decafalon: (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
11. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
12. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
13. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
14. Caterpallor: (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
15. Dorkestra: A kazoo ensemble.
16. Certifried: (adj.),guaranteed not to be cooked in trans fat oil.
17. Flabbergasted: (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
18. Negligent: (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
19. Flatulence: (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller
20. Balderdash: (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
21. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
22. Pagerism: (n.), a journalist using someone else’s beeper.
23. Puntuate: (n)m Flavoring a speech with this low form of humor,…the pun.

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