Verboticism: Portentuate
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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Portentuate
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Instigize
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ins - ti - jize
Sentence: Penny's motive in telling fibs and gently coercing her loved ones was to instigize them into action.
Etymology: instigate, energize
Persult
Created by: oddnuance
Pronunciation: Per-sult
Sentence: You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but persulting can work just as well.
Etymology: Persuade + Insult
Whipspirate
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation: Whip + spirate as in inspirate.
Sentence: I could see that work wasn't progressing according to schedule, and a little whipspiration was in order.
Etymology: Whip: Common petty threat "I'll whip ya boy". And inspiration, to inspire to action. Doesn't really work as well as the real thing.
Tovcandy
Created by: zagovorich
Pronunciation: tav'kendi
Sentence: To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats.
Etymology: Do it to have candy
Nastyvate
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation:
Sentence: If motivation did'nt work, Jim used his fallback option, nastivation, to drive home the point.
Etymology: nasty + motivate
Manipulavation
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
Instimidate
Created by: asfaltboy
Pronunciation: een-stee-meed-ayte
Sentence: She instimidated me to clean the toilets or i'll go to hell.
Etymology: Install stimuli by intimidating.
Hypoquenses
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: High - po - quin - sis
Sentence: In order to get my husband off the couch, I came up with some hypoqenses.
Etymology: Hypothetical Consequences
Altrumatum
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: l tru may tum
Sentence: The liberals continue to deliver strong altrumatums to the White House.
Etymology: altrumism + ultimatum
