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'You can do! Hang in there!'

DEFINITION: Silly little words you say to yourself when you have nothing left, but just have to keep going...

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Encouragebent

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: en-cur-age-bent

Sentence: Thanks to the encouragebent from his mentors, he decided to pursue his new-media art project full-time.

Etymology: bent courage

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Umeranduhs

Created by: OldEnglish

Pronunciation: uh-mir-and-as

Sentence: Although the suspect hemmed and hawed his way into a confession, it was ruled invalid because he had not been read his Umeranduh rights.

Etymology: um + er + and + uh

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Peptidbits

Created by: peterm

Pronunciation: pep titbits

Sentence: listen to him mutter peptidbits to himself; he'll never win.

Etymology: pep talk tidbit

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Carrotisms

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Sometimes carrotisms were the only incentives to persevering

Etymology:

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Psychogize

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When depressed, psychogize your self talk to make it through the day.

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Nihilisimi

alecstevenson

Created by: alecstevenson

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Foodilitize

Created by: ChrisCarrk

Pronunciation: foo-dill-ih-tie-ze

Sentence: FOODILITIZE!!!!! yea!

Etymology: think of the food, think of the food!

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Egotivation

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: ee-goh-tiv-ay shun

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Etymology: ego (self) + motivation

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Gibberwish

Created by: deadpanwalking

Pronunciation: JIB-er-wish

Sentence: With sweat forming on his brow and his pants at half-mast, his implausible explaination eventually trailed off to Gibberwish.

Etymology: gibberish - wish

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Jargonstraytion

Created by: queeny

Pronunciation: Jargon-stray-shone

Sentence: albsolute jaronstraytion ran through his mind at the job interview.

Etymology:

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