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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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Evolupement
Created by: Mirandala
Pronunciation: ev-o-loop'-ment
Sentence: The third eye in the back of Chad's head was a much-envied evolupement in his cubicle-filled workplace.
Etymology: evolution + development
Xtrait
Created by: meiyas
Pronunciation: ex trait
Sentence: People make gun of Xtraits because they wish they had one
Etymology: X= unknow, trait
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.
Evonomoly
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Evo-nom-oly
Sentence: As he looked in the mirror, Rudolph wondered if his evonomoly would ever come to be used.
Etymology: Evo-Evolution nomoly - Anomoly
Superfluassness
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: sue-purr-flue-ass-ness
Sentence: Though others deried Jim's superflueassness, he won more flagpole sitting contests than anyone else.
Etymology: superfluousness + well, what else?
Rudimation
Created by: jtexas
Pronunciation: rood i MAY shun
Sentence: Roger's rudimation enabled him to stay underwater longer than any diver ever had.
Etymology: rudolph the red-nosed raindeer(American pop-culture) + mutation
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COMMENTS:
- jtexas, 2006-12-21: 13:24:00
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Stigmutata
Created by: BlueHand
Pronunciation: Stig'Mew'Tar'Ta
Sentence: "Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you use your stigmutata to guide my sleigh tonight?"
Etymology: From Stigma and mutation
Dicapicy
Created by: AiDakura
Pronunciation: dee-ca-pee-see
Sentence: People ridicule him for his dicapicies.
Etymology:
Grackage
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: GRAK'-ij
Sentence:
Etymology: from the Greek 'grak' meaning flotsam or waste
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