PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.