Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.
INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.