Every so often I get an e-mail about the “Mensa Invitational,” a word game hosted by The Washington Post. It asks readers to make up new words by adding or subtracting a letter from an existing word.
A few examples:
Foreploy: Misrepresenting yourself for the purposes of obtaining sex.
Intaxication: The euphoria that accompanies an income tax rebate (which lasts only until you realize that this was your money to begin with).
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic humor and the person who doesn’t get it.
Glibido: All talk, no action.
Pretty clever, huh? The only problem with the Mensa Invitational is that it doesn’t exist. (Yet another reason to stop blindly forwarding every e-mail you get.)