PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.