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Incidences 

Incidences is a hybrid word (instances and incidents) that attempts to add importance and intellectual heft to a person's otherwise dull pronouncement. You hear this word all the time especially on newscasts where the host tries to sound important by using a bigger word than necessary.
" The incidences of credit card theft have risen dramatically since the influx of immigrants from Upper Freedonia have entered the neighborhood once know as Little Albania."
Incidences by jochthsi August 18, 2013

infidence 

"Eliza, if you go into the interview with infidence, you are sure to get the job!"
infidence by Rexium February 19, 2013

ignidence 

Portmanteau of "confidence" and "ignorance".

An unwarranted sense of confidence felt by those possessing a seemingly supernatural ignorance.
Sarah Palin's infuriating sound bites are steeped in ignidence.

"Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense." --Sarah Palin, on opposition to offshore oil drilling, Facebook note, June 13, 2010
ignidence by Vissith December 22, 2010

Angle of incidence 

George a bet your angle of incidence was 90 degrees last night