ghettogether, sacralization, mythopoeic

ghettogether (noun):

A social assembly of people of very closely related ethnic and cultural identities.

I got invited to Vinay's ghettogether tonight, but I don't know if I want to go. I'm tired of seeing the same faces and talking about the same things all the time.

Despite being such an extrovert, he keeps having ghettogether parties. It would do him good to move out of Maple Hill.

sacralize (verb):

To make sacred.

Until scientists learn the power of the literary form, they shall not be able to truly sacralize scientific materialism.

I was so annoyed when they rejected my paper without much justification. This community of reviewers need to sacralize solid values used to judge someone's submission.

mythopoeic (adjective):

His conversation style is so mythopoeic. I'm sure more than half of his stories are fabricated.

If only these self-help books were not that mythopoeic, I'd consider reading one of them.

schadenfreude, phoenix, leapfrog

Schadenfreude (noun):

The fun I feel when I see the distress of another person.

When that douchebag Deepak got turned down by Ishani, I just couldn't help control my displays of schadenfreude.

When John's paper got rejected, I felt a tingle of schadenfreude.

Phoenix (verb):

Something is long dead and gone and you try to give it new shape.

I decided today that enough is enough and I should phoenix my blogs.

The democrats have done all they could to phoenix McCain.

Leapfrog (verb) :

Sort of trying to make short cuts. Going from one place to another, by short circuiting the space in between.

Dude, how did Anand leapfrog to his systems paper without writing a single line of code?

The fact that villages with no water and electricity have mobile phone users shows the power of leapfrog technology.