Verboticisms

Created by: Dunvegan

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Sentence: I'm joining the Peace Corps to work as a paxtivist.

Etymology: Pax - Peace / ivist - As in "activist"

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Created by: helanren

Pronunciation: anyway you want, man...

Sentence: Convinced that history has proved that any interaction between two or more human beings can only lead to misery for at least one of them, George finally decided to make nonactivism his way of live and so to save the world.

Etymology: whatever you feel it should come from, man.....

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Created by: wiccanfey

Pronunciation: wish-peace-shun

Sentence: Instead of just saying she wanted peace, she did a wishpeacetion by donating Christmas presents to needy children.

Etymology: Wish, peace, action

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Created by: DarthWader

Pronunciation: term ih sect ih meed ee oh struct

Sentence: Having come to the realization that the conflict was nothing more than a fight over fiction, Tom put down his weapon, and his cross, and began to dream of better solutions.

Etymology: terminate (stop) + secular (religious) + immediate (instantaneous) + constructive (productive/worthwhile) -- i.e. to stop praying and start doing

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Created by: chris

Pronunciation: pax-fak

Sentence: paxfaccing around the world became the new trend for people taking a gap year from their studies or their jobs

Etymology: From Latin: Pax - peace, and fac - to do or make

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Created by: aruna

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Sentence: As she lay there, she fell into a deep snopeace.

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Created by: jdanicolaisen

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Sentence: He's a very wishtrueing person. He always cares about making wishes come true.

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Created by: Partario

Pronunciation: peace-o-ism

Sentence: he practiced peaceoism all year round.

Etymology: It just came to me...

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Created by: feelingindifferent

Pronunciation: ACT-teese

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Etymology: action + peace

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: lam-bass-a-dor-ing

Sentence: After years of living a non-violent life, Bob decided to make a career of it and started lambassadoring around the country.

Etymology: lamb, ambassador

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