MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable ... Commonly Saxon that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate.
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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