diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

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

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London