Definitions of Common Words

Here are some words that you know its meaning but you don't know its true meaning....



1. ATOM BOMB - An invention made to end all inventions.


2. BOSS - Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.


3. CIGARETTE - A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool on the other.


4. CLASSIC - A book which people praises, but do not read.


5. COLLEGE - A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.


6. COMMITTEE - Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.


7. COMPROMISE - The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.


8. CONFERENCE - The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.


9. CONFERENCE ROOM - A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.


10. CRIMINAL - A guy no different from the rest...except that he got caught.


11. DICTIONARY - A place where divorce comes before marriage.


12. DIPLOMAT - A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.


13. DIVORCE - Future tense of marriage.


14. DOCTOR - A person who kills by pills, and kills you with his bills.


15. ECSTASY - A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.


16. ETC. - A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.


17. EXPERIENCE - The name men give to their mistakes.


18. FATHER - A banker provided by nature.


19. LECTURE - An art of transferring information from the notes pf the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either'.


20. LOVE AFFAIRS - Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five-day test.


21. MARRIAGE - It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master.


22. MISER - A person who lives poor so the he can die rich.


23. OFFICE - A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.


24. OPTIMIST - A person who while falling from the Eiffel tower says in midway, "See, I'm not injured yet!"


25. OPPORTUNIST - A person who starts taking a bath if he accidentally falls into the river.


26. PESSIMIST - A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.


27. PHILOSOPHER - A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken when dead.


28. POLITICIAN - One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.


29. SMILE - A curve that can set a lot of things straight.


30. TEARS - THe hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine waterpower.


31. YAWN - The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.


-Adapted from the article Definitions of Common Words from the Graffiti 2008 magazine by Pavanjit Singh.




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-Tim-