SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

To seek a justification for a decision already made.