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DEFINITION: v. To push yourself so hard to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you undercut your own success. n. An impossibly high goal which practically guarantees failure.

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Goalure

Created by: hamburgerman

Pronunciation: gole your

Sentence: arnold worked nonstop to maximize productivity, but experienced goalure when his lack of sleep brought about poorly done work.

Etymology: GOAL + falURE = GOALURE

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no comment - hamburgerman, 2009-08-20: 21:20:00

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Overunchieving

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: O-ver-un-chi-ving

Sentence: As she had PMS, he tried being quiet and out of the way. Unfortunately his overunchieving mind made him trip over noisy furniture, tickle her feet, and generally fail everything he set out to do.

Etymology: overachieve - do better than expected unchieve - do worse when trying

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Overundoing

Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: oh-ver-un-DOO-ing

Sentence: Simon knew he was overundoing it when he turned his speakers up to "11".

Etymology: over + undone

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Paragonarrhea

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: pair-a-gone-a-ree-ah

Sentence: Sue would always paragonarrhea over her clothes, constantly tugging, smoothing, and brushing off imaginary lint specks; ultimately, this made her look like a grooming chimpanzee.

Etymology: paragon, gonarrhea

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COMMENTS:

Hilarious! - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:10:00

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Excelplode

Created by: galwaywegian

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Underflog

Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: uhn-der-flog

Sentence: Sometimes actors, musicians, politicians, or other celebrities (also including honor students) tend to underflog their own success by expecting too much of themselves.

Etymology: underdog + flog (as in, underdogging one's self, which leads to the flogging of one's career)

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Nosestrive

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: nose-strive

Sentence: Garfunkel, who only wanted to look sharp, would often nosestrive while working on his makeup, forgetting that one also requires pants to make a good impression.

Etymology: strive + nosedive

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Good! - wordmeister, 2007-01-16: 10:12:00

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Prepostexert

Created by: Kirubeza

Pronunciation: pre-POHST-igs-ERT

Sentence: Barry's wife finally pushed him to prepostexert his shaving, by making him use the household craft knife to remove his infuriating stubble.

Etymology: PREPOSTEROUS & EXERT. (To be insensibly impossible & to strive, toil, or struggle for something)

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Deafucess

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: Di/fu/x/ess

Sentence: Poor guy, he just had to go and deafucess. You've gotta know where to stop

Etymology: Defeat + success

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Disastorious

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: di-sas-tor-i-us

Sentence: Jonathan was going to be the world’s greatest novelist, but he could never get that first sentence right. So he would tell his friends his writing career was disastorious, hoping they would think it was something big... rather than something that was just short.

Etymology: a glorious disaster

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