Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.