Verboticisms

Created by: verysimplegame

Pronunciation: Me-pif-an-ee

Sentence: The clothes, the shoes, the tiny chihuahua nestled in her purse - they all coalesed into a mepiphany. She grinned in spite of herself and screamed "I *ROCK*!".

Etymology: Me + epiphany

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Created by: vonnegut

Pronunciation: chro-no-sin-kla-stik in-fun-di-bu-lum

Sentence: You might think it would be nice to go to a chronosynclastic infundibulum and see all the different ways to be absolutely right, but it is a very dangerous thing to do.

Etymology: Created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., for The Sirens of Titan, published in 1959.

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Created by: Rutilus

Pronunciation: seh-rend-veh-ree-time

Sentence: Clarice had stumbled upon a utopian place in time. The perfect shopping mall, stumbling across designer clothes at bargain prices, getting looks of amour from men and jealousy from other women. She was the best looking, best dressed woman in town; it was so apparently true.

Etymology: serendipity - act of stumbling upon pleasant surprises; verity - truthfulness; time - a moment or period

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: you reeeeeek ay reeeee ah

Sentence: He used to live in the zone, command the eurekarea. Then he met her.

Etymology: eureka area

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: Zen-you-foreea

Sentence: He was the handsomest man in the room and when she loked at him she had the zeneuphoria of seeing him smile and start walking towards her

Etymology: Zen- philosophy of equilibrium. euphoria- joy

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Created by: rebelvin

Pronunciation: COPAcetic+ZENIC

Sentence: I had just gotten a promotion, my son got into Harvard, my foreign investments were hitting the roof, but everything was still not copazenic.

Etymology: COPAcetic+ZENIC Copacetic: completely satisfactory, satisfying. Zenic: related to figuring out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: con-junct-shure

Sentence: Today felt like no other day because everything came together in a conjunctsure like she'd never seen before and she knew that everything would be perfect. Feeling sure and confident she went shoe shopping. Perhaps today she would find those special shoes that were both cute and comfortable.

Etymology: conjuncture: a coming together of events or circumstances, often at a critical time -- some scholars think that the Star of Bethlehem was a triple conjuncture of the planets + sure: certain, impossible to doubt, infallible

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COMMENTS:

Jimmy Choose me! - Nosila, 2009-11-06: 22:35:00

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: kuhn-VEHR-ih-jehns

Sentence: Alex found his converigence in his philosophy class, for there, at least in theory, the world *could* be made of Swiss cheese.

Etymology: convergence + verity

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Created by: Pasicheio

Pronunciation: Paw-Lee-Vare-It-Ism

Sentence: With an exclamation of joy, Polly realized that they were both right, and that moment was a polyveritism!

Etymology: Poly; veritas; umm..ism

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: noo-DAL-uh-tee

Sentence: Jeff finally stopped resisting his mysillium, and let his karass guide him to his ultimate noodality. He realized that he could be a Rotarian, naturist, a good Anabaptist, and worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster with no contradictions! It was all such fine granfaloonery!

Etymology: noodle, node, modality, reality, nude

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COMMENTS:

If Jeff was also a good naturist too, then your etymology could include 'nude'! - petaj, 2007-04-20: 07:55:00

done! - Alchemist, 2007-04-20: 08:51:00

Wow, creative collaboration! Dan Pink would be proud of your group kayveeisms. - wordmeister, 2007-04-20: 10:27:00

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