Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.