New Words and Hilarious Answers

I keep lists of these every year. My kids will make up these crazy words they think are real as they're writing essays or exams.
Sometimes, depending on the relationship I have with that particular kid, I can laugh about it with them. Most of the time, I just circle it and gently suggest what word I think they meant.

Most of these are from the academic level classes (mostly grade 10-11). These still crack me up.

• Rurinate
• Wen't
• Conversate
• Insultation
• Thruthworthy
• Manlihood
• Supper powers
• Drunked (as a verb, like 'Lady Macbeth drunked the guards.')
• Assassined
• Hatredness
• Fusaud (facade)
• Erry (eerie)
• Trials and trivulations
• Cedistic (sadistic)
• Brutle
• Suttle difference
• Gooder
• It was tooken away
• Instinctiable
• Kurrupted
• They had side kick powers (they meant psychic)
• Unlucid
• Clevlage (they meant cleavage)
• Prettiful
• Arengely (I think they meant arranged)
• Explanation mark
• Innonsense (innocence)
• Injusticeness
  

Awesome Test Answers

"Three characters in To Kill a Mockingbird have to deal with more injustice than the others. These three were Tom Robinson, black people, and Dolphus Raymond."

"In conclusion, these are only a few points that I have to prove my points."

"Personification: when you describe something non-human with a body part."

"Use the word 'Verbatim' in a sentence: The music test had to be verbatimized."

"Use the word 'Rankle' in a sentence: The clothes were all rankled when I washed them."

Answers from a Grade 10 Quiz on the novel "The Chrysalids"

Question: What was Tribulation?

- Tribulation was a great catascrophe.
- They believe Tribulation was the furry of God.
- Tribulation is really a neculear war.
- The world comes to an end - appacalips.

Question: What are the Badlands?

- It was actually the effect of radioactive radiations.
- Badlands where you die, you just die.
- The Badlangs are where knowone lives because it is burnt all done high radioactive is there.

Question: Use the word 'potent' in a sentence.

- Your potent is very beautiful and outstanding to my appeal.

Question: Why do David's father and the Inspector dislike each other?

- David's father feels its unneccerily for the Inspector to inspect and also they have bad vibes with each other which may be personal.
- The inspector and the father dislike each other so much because they bump heads a lot.

Question: Give an example that shows this society looks down on women.

- The society looks down on women.