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Daily Definitions for 6 February 2012

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resolution
a special kind of lie told in the privacy of one’s own company.
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witchcraft
an early and resurging form of rural arts and crafts which concerned things like luck in love, productive crops, health and healing, and the boiling of babies to gain the power of flight.
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Respond
v.i. To make answer, or disclose otherwise a consciousness of having inspired an interest in what Herbert Spencer calls “external coexistences,” as Satan “squat like a toad” at the ear of Eve, responded to the touch of the angel’s spear. To respond in damages is to contribute to the maintenance of the plaintiff’s attorney and, incidentally, to the gratification of the plaintiff.
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Talk
v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

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