Verboticism: Antagonate

'Santa won't come unless you clean up your desk!'

DEFINITION: v. To inspire and motivate people to do great things, by issuing petty threats. n. A kind and gentle threat.

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Threativate

Created by: bghicks

Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate

Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.

Etymology: Threat+Motivate

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Manipulavation

aly22

Created by: aly22

Pronunciation: man ni pu la vation man ni pu la vate

Sentence: In order to manipulavate the kids into washing up the dinner dishes, she told them Santa was watching.

Etymology: manipulate + motivation

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Follygraphed

Created by: janedoe

Pronunciation: Fol-ee-graft

Sentence: I follygraphed when I convinced my co-worker that if he xeroxed a huge stack of papers, he'd get promoted to CEO.

Etymology: Folly + polygraph

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Molaspasm

Created by: Taami

Pronunciation:

Sentence: c'mon clean up your room, you don't want a molaspasm do you.

Etymology:

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Negivate

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: neg/i/vate

Sentence: With the use of browbeating , a loud voice and threats, my boss can negivate any employee.

Etymology: negative + motivate

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Hitleristic

IHeartKiwiTarts

Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts

Pronunciation: " Hit-ler-is-tick"

Sentence: When I asked for a BMW for my birthday, my dad got all hitleristic on me, and said I couldn't get it until I ate all my soy beans.

Etymology: the history behind this word is unknown, most feel it comes from one behaving like a psychotic dictator asshole in order to get something done.

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Hypoquenses

Created by: Chistinalove

Pronunciation: High - po - quin - sis

Sentence: In order to get my husband off the couch, I came up with some hypoqenses.

Etymology: Hypothetical Consequences

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Athrettchevomenicy

Created by: kopaka649

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Threativate

Created by: chrisk2k7

Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate

Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.

Etymology: Threat+Motivate

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Threativate

Created by: Windyo

Pronunciation: Thre-tee-vate

Sentence: Dude, my mom totally threativated me to mow the lawn.

Etymology: Threat+Motivate

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