Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

The god of the world's leading religion.