A friend of my e-mail me this so I'm passing it along.
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary; alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter; and supply a new definition. Here are this year's 2005 winners:



1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent.



2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.



3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.



4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.



5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.



6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.



7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.



8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.



9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.



10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.



11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)



12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.



13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.



14. Glibido: All talk and no action.



15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.



16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.



17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.



18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating

Nice. I'm going to think on this.

Similarly here's a word game I made up: I call it ANTINYMS: it involves locating words that by design would suggest that they have a natural antonym, but in fact don't:

e.g., replenish xxx plenish
inebriated xxx ebriated

You go.

I like those.

finally, a funny chain email

Foreploy - also see, my horse cock t-shirt.

regardless ----> ungardless

interior ----> reterior

desire ----> insire

invention ----> devention

under ----> inder

resume ---> unsume

involve ----> revolve

deminish ---> inminish

distant ---> detant

irritate ---> disritate

prosititue---> disstitute

Prepubescent ---> propubescent

I'm probably getting more into disections of word origins but still fun... and endless

iridescent ----> preidescent

You know, it's one thing to be proud...
It's another thing to be a show-off...

You were on the right track with this one, which actually should be "diminish >>> minish", but the rest aren't passable. You're replacing one prefix for another, and I'm not sure what the meaning is that comes out on the other end sometimes. Granted, the key to antinyms is in their prefixes, usually, but you are not able to switch or add, only to remove.

Or were you, hmm ... ?

So it'd be more like:

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it's "reckless," so probably just "reck."

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These two work, particularly the former, because so many prefixes can be affixed to the body 'sume'. "Under -> der" does not work because 'un' has no meaning here.

Some others:

unruly >>> ruly
incorrigible >>> corrigible
remit >>> mit
recur >>> cur
inept >>> ept
impeccable >>> peccable

One of my personal favourites -- I actually use this in every day speech, and people assume I said "apt".

This was actually my original idea... i added the prefixes after i went through them. Stupid Coma always ruining good ideas...