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DEFINITION: To never give up, to never let go of your dream, especially when others try to take it away from you.
Verboticisms
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Disquittable
Created by: emmthewriter
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As disquittable as she is, she never gives up or loses faith in herself.
Etymology:
Carpedream
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: kar-pay-DREE-m. (to rhyme with carpe diem)
Sentence: After years of ridicule from his Latin teacher because of his lethargy, Bob decided to cease the daze, yelling "carpedream! carpedream!"
Etymology: To sieze the dream! Based on carpe diem: Latin phrase meaning "pluck the day" (or in modern parlance rendered: "to sieze the day."
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COMMENTS:
Clever play ... on seize the day! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-02: 14:38:00
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Tenaciferocity
Created by: blurmore
Pronunciation: Ten-ass-eh-fare-ah-sitee
Sentence: Her tenaciferocity in grasping the bride's bouquet was enhanced by the open bar.
Etymology: Tenacious + Ferocious
Convictream
Created by: freakystyley
Pronunciation: Con-Vick-Trim
Sentence: Leslie's goal, or rather convictream, in life is to win the "Best Mud-slinging Champ" trophy even if he has to play dirty.
Etymology: Conviction + Dream
Deteradreamation
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: Dee-Tur-a-Dreem-a-shun
Sentence: You could see the deteradreamation in his face that he was going to win the title of "King Burger Eater" no matter what the cost! It was his dream for all his life.
Etymology: Deter not as in "discourage" but short for "determination" and "dream" literally. A combination of the 2 words which describe the meaning.
Forwill
Created by: 02browns
Pronunciation: four - wil
Sentence: Jim was determined to get the prize, he had a lot of forwill.
Etymology: A combination of force and will, coming together to form forced will or forwill.
Stubbortination
Created by: direwookiee
Pronunciation: Stub-bor-tin-ay-shun
Sentence: Timmy's "Stubbortination" impressed his tug of war team mates during the championship. He never let go and firmly refused to let the other team deny him his dream.
Etymology: "Stubbor-" comes from "STUBBORn" "-t-" doesn't come from anywhere. Stop looking at it. "-ination" comes from "DetermINATION"
Persistenacious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Per - sis - tuh - NAY - shuss
Sentence: Despite ongoing efforts by friends and family to dissuade her from persuing her goals, Wilhelmena was persistenatious in sticking to her dreams
Etymology: A play on the words persistent and tenacious
Persernacious
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: per-sir-ney-she-ous
Sentence: He was the most persernacious dog I'd ever seen. When he wanted something he made it known.
Etymology: perservere+tenacious
Sistereorexis
Created by: bigbigjeff
Pronunciation: Sis-tere-ore-ex-sis
Sentence: Although crippled from the neck down the man had never felt more sistereorexis to become an astronaut.
Etymology: Sistere for to stand for, Orexis for desire
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2008-01-02: 16:14:00
Great word!