Saturday, March 6, 2010

"Masticate"

As he stood gnawing on the turkey leg, sauce dripping from his Mick Jagger lips, the man's masticating teeth were grinding against one another, to the utter horror and chagrin of all within a 100-yard radius.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

"Didactic"

I hope my didactic newspaper column helped reinforce the lesson I taught in rhetoric today.

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

"Temporize"

Honestly, though I'm no fan of Valentine's Day, I do think it was kind of rude of the person who kept temporizing when my friend asked him to the dance, only to say at the last minute he didn't want to go.

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