CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
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INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.
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LOW-BRED, adj. 'Raised' instead of brought up.
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PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.
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RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
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