voluntold: The exact opposite of volunteering. Always used in reference to an unpleasant task to which you have been assigned by your boss.

> Example 1:
> Co-worker 1: I hear you got a transfer.
> Co-worker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to, but I was voluntold.
> Example 2:
> Co-worker 1: You want to go fishing Saturday???
> Co-worker 2: I can't, I got voluntold I have to work this weekend.

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acephalogastric monster
aerocolia
albedo earth sensor
algae poisoning
Amittai
angle of repose
apthorp
aweil (uwayl)
Belyakovka
better distribution of investment
bifurcated ligament
Bufo boreas
butt and butt
circle side shift device
clastation
cloudery
conquered
continuous scouring train
cribraria minutissima
diabetic amaurosis
dichloromethylation
dickin'
direct oxidative pathway
disafforestment
easy-to-handle
eco-porn
ewer with small mouth and double handles
exception exit
export sequence sheet
ficult
flag-waver
fraiture
fricourts
friedheim
function-orienteds
glycerin-beta-dibromohydrin
glycerinum pepsini
gunsmith
Helmert gravity formula
Hibiscus manihot L.
hole to bench edge distance
initial behavior regime
kokkow
last call
Lignac-Fanconi syndrome
live roller gear
low-voltage battery
luminous flux
lyk
main-steam pipe
malva pudding
mandatory cumulative voting
mass of proton
matching cost
mesoblastemic
misbehavin
multi product analysis
N-(2-Mercaptopropionyl)glycine
new entries
nodi
nonproportional
normal enzyme
Norwich school
Nushagak Bay
on course
overruled
oxidized surface
Palo Alto
passionfish
pay something off
pin-dust
power magnetic amplifier
propagation of dislocations
pseudostrabism
round bottom flask
round guess
Santiaba Mandjak
SAST
sea pressure
securities laws
self-tuning control
small potatoes
social object
stange
stirring chest
stopsigns
sulformetoxin
tailed sonnet
Test Water
thick layer
Thorndike, Edward Lee
tight-lippedness
top-loaders
Toxoplasmea
trabeculae septomarginalis
trihydroxy indole
Tringa
uncompromising
undisciplinable
VE-cadherin
walkie-hearie
wears in