{"id":382,"date":"2002-03-05T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/05\/vocabulary-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:58:45","slug":"vocabulary-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/05\/vocabulary-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Each year the Washington Post&#8217;s Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one leter and supply a new definition.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 2001 winners:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Intaxication:<\/dt>\n<dd>Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.<\/dd>\n<dt>Reintarnation:<\/dt>\n<dd>Coming back to life as a hillbilly.<\/dd>\n<dt>Foreploy:<\/dt>\n<dd>Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.<\/dd>\n<dt>Giraffiti:<\/dt>\n<dd>Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.<\/dd>\n<dt>Sarchasm:<\/dt>\n<dd>The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn&#8217;t get it.<\/dd>\n<dt>Inoculatte:<\/dt>\n<dd>To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.<\/dd>\n<dt>Hipatitis:<\/dt>\n<dd>Terminal coolness.<\/dd>\n<dt>Osteopornosis:<\/dt>\n<dd>A degenerate disease.<\/dd>\n<dt>Karmageddon:<\/dt>\n<dd>It&#8217;s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it&#8217;s all, like, a serious bummer.<\/dd>\n<dt>Glibido:<\/dt>\n<dd>All talk and no action.<\/dd>\n<dt>Dopeler Effect:<\/dt>\n<dd>The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.<\/dd>\n<dt>Ignoranus:<\/dt>\n<dd>A person who&#8217;s both stupid <em>and<\/em> an asshole.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the Washington Post&#8217;s Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one leter and supply a new definition. Here are the 2001 winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}