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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:
Dreambition
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dreem bi shun
Sentence: Her main dreambition in life was to win big on the lottery...even if the odds were 14 million to one.
Etymology: dream & ambition
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COMMENTS:
Wow ... nice word blending! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-02: 00:54:00
That has a nice ring to it :) - Phunky, 2008-01-02: 16:16:00
Good word! Well done!! - Stevenson0, 2008-01-02: 20:52:00
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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
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.
Clampnatious
Created by: valkyrie
Pronunciation: clamp-nay-shuss
Sentence: although now living in a slum at the age of 56 the fact that she still tried out for the junior high volleyball team showed her genetic clampnatious nature
Etymology: variation on the word clamp [meaning to grip]
Aspiverance
Created by: Phunky
Pronunciation: asp-iv-EAR-ance (british english)
Sentence: Her unwavering aspiverance turned her naive childhood pork-chop-stealing dream into a reality.
Etymology: Portmanteau of aspiration and perseverance. noun: aspiverance. verb: to aspivere. Amusing alternative configuration: perspiration
Strivurnate
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: Stry-vern-ate
Sentence: My teachers want me to keep drawing and continue to strivurnate if I am ever to become a successful artist.
Etymology: A combination of the words strive and stubborn, to create the meaning, to stubbornly strive.
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.
Persevicious
Created by: spunkify
Pronunciation: Per-se- vish-us
Sentence: Wow, she is so persevicious, she is still protesting even when the officials said she couldn't!
Etymology: Perseverance + Tenacious
Grabicious
Created by: TheUrbanRabbit
Pronunciation: Grab-ish-uss
Sentence: Many people complimented Sara on her grabicious devotion to her dream
Etymology: adjective
Comments:
OZZIEBOB - 2008-01-02: 16:14:00
Great word!