Vocabulary lesson

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

Here are the 2001 winners:

Intaxication:

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

Reintarnation:

Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Foreploy:

Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

Giraffiti:

Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Sarchasm:

The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

Inoculatte:

To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

Hipatitis:

Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis:

A degenerate disease.

Karmageddon:

It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s all, like, a serious bummer.

Glibido:

All talk and no action.

Dopeler Effect:

The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Ignoranus:

A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.