Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.