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DEFINITION: To push yourself so hard, to reach an impossibly high standard of perfection, that you end up undercutting your own success.

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Paragonorrhea

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: pare-ah-gon-ah-ree-ah

Sentence: Hair perfectly coiffed, immaculate three-piece suit, and a fresh coat of polish on his shoes - it was readily apparent to all who attended the company picnic that Bob was dealing with a nasty bout of paragonorrhea.

Etymology: paragon, gonorrhea

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hehehehe - galwaywegian, 2007-08-22: 07:28:00

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Marvellosity

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: mar-vel-LOS-ee-tee

Sentence: Professionally Bob didn't plan to jump tall buildings in a single bound, he wanted to soar much higher than that. And, as paragon of phoenixity, this cryptonite-proofed superman of industry leaped vocationally higher and higher every day. But what this ubiquitist didn't realize that 20 hours a day of desktop dedication would eventually lead to medication. Colleagues found their demarvellized director, slumped at his desk, physically and emotionally enervated. A doctor, called to treat him, said that he was suffering from ergasthenia, but others suggested that his condition was due to extreme marvellosity.

Etymology: Blend of marvel(example of outstanding success),lose (fail to retain)& -ity(expressing state or condition) Phoenixity: matchless excellence or beauty. Grambs, D J "Dictionary of Endangered English" 1994

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Subnillime

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: sub-nil-lime

Sentence: Often with cases of accidental suicides, extreme subnillime behaviour has been a factor. In Jeb's case, those pesky stray hairs by his jugular vein proved to be dangerous territory.

Etymology: sublime + nil

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Excelailing

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Created by: Uccxxxv

Pronunciation: Pronounced very much like Exhaling, but with "sale" instead of "hail"

Sentence: "He pushed himself so hard he wound up excelailing"

Etymology: Excell + Failing

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Nulltimate

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: nuhl-tuh-mit

Sentence: He was forever trying so hard to get it right he continued to achieve the nulltimate goal - nothing!

Etymology: null + ultimate

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Perfectopathic

Created by: lvinning

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Perfaultion

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: per-fault-shun

Sentence: Her tendency to over-pluck her eyebrows is a perfualtion. Now after years of tweezing, plucking and pulling, her eyebrows won't even grow at all.

Etymology: perfection + fault

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Apexecuting

Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: ay-PECKS-uh-cue-ting

Sentence: Tawanda wanted to make partner in her legal firm so badly that she set an impossible two-year goal to work 20 hour days and churn out 5,000 pages of legal briefs a week, which, as everyone knows, is a sure-fire recipe for apexecuting yourself.

Etymology: Apex (tippy top) + executing (both the capital punishment and "putting into motion" meanings)

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Paragonwrong

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: parra-gone-wrong

Sentence: Nikos dream of perfection was never reached. He wanted his cafe in the centre of town to be the epitome of a Greek kafenion, but he was never satisfied with the decor and continued to import nick-nacks and concrete all the surrounding area until the customers could barely find room to sit. He was a paragonwrong.

Etymology: paragon + gone wrong

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Kaluthuvettu

Created by: rasumohan

Pronunciation: Kalutthuvettu

Sentence: Don't kaluthuvettu yourself for the sake of others

Etymology: From Tamil

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Kyoti - 2007-08-22: 15:26:00