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DEFINITION: The feeling you get when fate plays a stupid little trick on you, just to remind you that life isn't fair.

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Realitrick

Created by: graypenguin

Pronunciation: re-al-i-trick

Sentence: He was up all night writing that paper only to realize that his printer was out of ink. One of life's cruel little realitricks...

Etymology: reality + trick

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Inconstration

Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: in-kon-STRAY-shun

Sentence: To Percy's great inconstration, the cat knocked his glass of cola onto his carefully-completed passport application form.

Etymology: In as a negatory + contentment + frustration = inconstration

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Nerodisataphy

Created by: leeannhamers

Pronunciation: n-rr-o-d-is-a-taffy

Sentence: someone kicked my dog t was a great nerodisataphy

Etymology: nero(brian/mind), dissapointment, contashophy

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Resistentialism

Created by: Syzygy

Pronunciation: Resi-stent-ialism

Sentence: Resistentialism is a theory in which inanimate objects display hostile desires towards human beings

Etymology: Resist and Existentialism

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Moironic

Created by: jesster

Pronunciation: Moi -ron - ic

Sentence: Jody was thrilled when she discovered the beautiful antique cabinet at a yard sale for only $2. She spent the entire drive home planning how she would arrange her Hummel figurines in it. It was overwhelmingly moironic that when she arrived home, she found that her house had burned to the ground. All that was left of her extensive collection was a melted puddle of kitch.

Etymology: Moira ( Fate in Greek and Roman mythology, any of three goddesses who determined human destinies, and in particular the span of a person's life and his allotment of misery and suffering) + ironic

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COMMENTS:

great story - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-07: 12:33:00

That is a brilliant story, but I'm afraid I can't vote for this, because you used the word "ironic" incorrectly (thank you Alanis Morisette). - Pseudonym, 2007-09-08: 05:08:00

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Chantagonized

Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: chan-tag-uh-nahyzd

Sentence: Unfortunately, on the one day in the last year that she forgot to hang her parking pass, an eager, new tow company employee was patrolling the lot; yet she refused to feel chantagonized as she took a cab home that evening.

Etymology: chance + antagonized

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Murpholated

Created by: Jeaneai

Pronunciation: Mirf-oh-late-id

Sentence: Janine felt so murpholated when her shatterproof vase fell right on the linoleum floor and, you guessed it, shattered completely.

Etymology: From Murphy's Law, which is basically that everything that can go wrong will.

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Karmatoast

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: karma/toe/st

Sentence: It was all over - she looked at the butter melting onto the floor and realized she was karmatoast

Etymology: karma (fate) + comatose (stupefied) + toast (done)

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Karcruelma

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: kahr-krool-mah

Sentence: Don't cry over spilled milk and that's how the cookie crumbles - typical comments she would blurt out when bouts of karcruelma occurred.

Etymology: karma + cruel

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