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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Opinion
Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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Gossip
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Kitchen
Man
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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God
Fact
Sabbath
World
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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Man
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Power
Woman
Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Secrets
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Conservative
Liberal
Wishes
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Politics
People
American
Country
Office
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Action
Approval
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Women
Idleness
Leisure
Retirement
Sin
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Profit
Responsibility
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Financial
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Quality
Soul
Curiosity
Desire
Mind
Woman
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Vision
Cynic