Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its style invitational contest, in which readers are asked 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 winners:

1. 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.

2. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

3. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

4. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who does not get it.

5. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

6. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.

7. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? Then, like, the Earth explodes and it is like, a serious bummer.

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

9. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.

10. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

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

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

13. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you are eating.