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'Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!'

DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.

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Threatencourage

Created by: mmf11

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Inspult

Created by: voxexmachina

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Sentence: His writing skills improved after I inspulted them.

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Parenting

Created by: Psychicsi

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Fauxtivate

Created by: sufjan

Pronunciation: foe-ti-vait

Sentence: As a child, I always worked hard due to my my grandmother's fauxtivations about the tooth fairy making my teeth fall out.

Etymology: faux-fake (mo)tivate-to encourage

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Parenlietivate

Created by: TwoSheds

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Sentence: I often parenlietivate, it's good for my kids

Etymology: Parent+lie+motivate

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Manipulavation

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Created by: aly22

Pronunciation: man ni pu la vation man ni pu la vate

Sentence: In order to manipulavate the kids into washing up the dinner dishes, she told them Santa was watching.

Etymology: manipulate + motivation

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Pettiwet

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: pet-tee-wet

Sentence: Andrea knew her team would never meet the deadline unless they worked all night, so she pettiwet them with death. It worked.

Etymology: petit or petty + threat but wet

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Mothreavational

Created by: missparaguay1991

Pronunciation: as in mothrea - vational

Sentence: No sex for one week? that's very mothreavational!

Etymology: mothreavational /mo/ prefix + /threa/ from E. threat meaning warining on something imminent + /vational/ sufix

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Petthreat

Created by: Carlyumz

Pronunciation: Pet-fret

Sentence: When hiring a new employee i find it best to issue petthreats to break their spirits.

Etymology: Petty + threat

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Chagrinspire

Created by: Mirandala

Pronunciation: cha-grin'-spire

Sentence: We were chagrinspired to participate in the office potluck by Sheryl's admonition that non-participants would not receive year-end bonuses.

Etymology: chagrin + inspire

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