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DEFINITION: A unique physical or psychological trait, which makes one "different". Often seen as a handicap, even if it provides a distinct evolutionary advantage.
Verboticisms
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Evovantage
Created by: styxandstones31
Pronunciation: e-vo-vantage
Sentence: The monkeys second tail was a complete evovantage, for it helped him hang on to the tree better than the others.
Etymology:
Genetigift
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: jen-et-ick-ift
Sentence: Many considered Lily's tail to be a freak of nature, but she knew it was a genetigift, because she secretly trained herself to be a deadly assassin with it.
Etymology: Genetic + gift
Charactravesty
Created by: Chadcaster
Pronunciation: Car-ak-tra-vesti
Sentence: His huge ears were something of a charactravesty, often upsetting children.
Etymology: from characteristic and travesty
Embarrassteristic
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: im-bare-iss-ter-is'-tic
Sentence: That unibrow is a total embarrassteristic.
Etymology: embarrass + characteristic
Grackage
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij
Sentence:
Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste
Evolushun
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He cursed natural selection everyday for his evolushun.
Etymology:
Aberlution
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: a bur LU shun
Sentence: By sheer comic aberlution penguins have mananged to captivate the hearts & minds of people everywhere, consequently insuring their survivial.
Etymology: aberration + evolution
Uniquirk
Created by: vince
Pronunciation: you/ni/kwerk
Sentence: Without the uniquirk possessed by the monk, there might not have been the foresight to reinforce the temple with bananas.
Etymology: unique + quirk
Differantage
Created by: seraphrevan
Pronunciation: diff-er-ant-ij
Sentence: The football player's differantage made him thinner and slimmer, but also made him twice as fast as the other players.
Etymology: Derived from different and advantage.
Comments:
By popular request! A definition which suggests a noun as the solution. But feel free to twist it into a verb, or even an adjective, if you wish! ~ James
kmccardle - 2006-12-21: 15:03:00
So does anyone else not like this new voting set up? I personally much preferred the ranking system, even if this way is perhaps more fair.
chris - 2006-12-21: 16:11:00
Whatever you do still leaves the system open to mates voting for mates no matter how good or bad the word.....but it's just a game so who cares? The fun is from participating (for me, anyway).
Hey kmccardle, the rankings are still here -- but they are not on the front page anymore. You can see the complete list Verboticisms for each definition on the daily stats page. (On the first day this list is presented in alphabetical order. After that, the words are ranked by score.)
The other thing to remember is that this is still an interim measure. We are creating a clustering function which will allow people to play in smaller groups so that there will be more direct interaction and communication between the players. This should be ready for testing in the next week or so... ~ James