Verboticism: Tenaciferocity
DEFINITION: To never give up, to never let go of your dream, especially when others try to take it away from you.
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Persistenacious
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Per - sis - tuh - NAY - shuss
Sentence: Despite ongoing efforts by friends and family to dissuade her from persuing her goals, Wilhelmena was persistenatious in sticking to her dreams
Etymology: A play on the words persistent and tenacious
Clampnatious
Created by: valkyrie
Pronunciation: clamp-nay-shuss
Sentence: although now living in a slum at the age of 56 the fact that she still tried out for the junior high volleyball team showed her genetic clampnatious nature
Etymology: variation on the word clamp [meaning to grip]
Forrestgumption
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /fawr-ist-guhmp'-shun/
Sentence: Despite his short stature, Maurice had dreamed of being a professional basketball player since he'd watched his first game on television, and finally, after ignoring the taunts and derision of his peers for most of his life, through sheer Forrestgumption and countless hours of practice, he made his dream come true.
Etymology: Forrest Gump - a mentally-challenged character from the movie and novel of the same name, whose unflagging optimism and determination take him far in life; an inspirational icon since the sucess of the movie + gumption - boldness of enterprise, courage an
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COMMENTS:
just lol! - Dougalistic, 2008-01-02: 05:14:00
This is awesome! - Korinne, 2008-01-02: 13:41:00
It is interesting and strange that that "gump" in my dictionary is housed next to gumption, its exact opposite. Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-02: 16:31:00
Good one! Off the wall and different and I like it a lot!! Something about winning for the ol' Gumper and the trees and a forest!!! - Stevenson0, 2008-01-02: 20:58:00
BRILLIANT - direwookiee, 2008-01-02: 21:35:00
great movie ... great word ... great creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-03: 15:35:00
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Grabicious
Created by: TheUrbanRabbit
Pronunciation: Grab-ish-uss
Sentence: Many people complimented Sara on her grabicious devotion to her dream
Etymology: adjective
Persernacious
Created by: gemmgemms
Pronunciation: per-sir-ney-she-ous
Sentence: He was the most persernacious dog I'd ever seen. When he wanted something he made it known.
Etymology: perservere+tenacious
Strivurnate
Created by: zebrahdh
Pronunciation: Stry-vern-ate
Sentence: My teachers want me to keep drawing and continue to strivurnate if I am ever to become a successful artist.
Etymology: A combination of the words strive and stubborn, to create the meaning, to stubbornly strive.
Sistereorexis
Created by: bigbigjeff
Pronunciation: Sis-tere-ore-ex-sis
Sentence: Although crippled from the neck down the man had never felt more sistereorexis to become an astronaut.
Etymology: Sistere for to stand for, Orexis for desire
Persevicious
Created by: spunkify
Pronunciation: Per-se- vish-us
Sentence: Wow, she is so persevicious, she is still protesting even when the officials said she couldn't!
Etymology: Perseverance + Tenacious
Disquittable
Created by: emmthewriter
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As disquittable as she is, she never gives up or loses faith in herself.
Etymology:
Aspiverance
Created by: Phunky
Pronunciation: asp-iv-EAR-ance (british english)
Sentence: Her unwavering aspiverance turned her naive childhood pork-chop-stealing dream into a reality.
Etymology: Portmanteau of aspiration and perseverance. noun: aspiverance. verb: to aspivere. Amusing alternative configuration: perspiration