AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

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

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.