Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.