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The Washington Post's Style Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.-Enjoy. Here are this year's winners

1. Intaxication - Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation - Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Bozone (n.) - The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy - Any misrepresentation about yourself, for the purpose of getting l*id.

5. Cashtration (n.) - The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti - Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte - To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis - Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis - A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon - It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.) - The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido - All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect - The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.) - The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.) - Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.) - The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature
18. Ignoranus - A person who's both stupid and an a-hole.