Mu: Catharsis

academic: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

'Didactic refers to literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative. It does not merely entertain.'

The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose (now only in for the nonce); A nonce word; A datum constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks; A sex offender, especially of children; a pedophile; A stupid or worthless person.

A voice vote. Latin root, apparently it also means 'speaker phone' or loud-speaker in Italian.

An excessively sweet wine that may seem to be out of balance due to low acidity.

Sabotage is a term of French origin coined during the railway strike of 1910, when workers destroyed the wooden shoes, or sabots, that held rails in place, thus impeding the morning commute.[citation needed] An alternate definition claims the word to be older by almost a century, the times of Industrial Revolution. It is said that powered looms could be damaged by angry or disgruntled workers throwing their wooden shoes or clogs (known in French as sabots, hence the term Sabotage) into the machinery, effectively clogging the machinery.

contemptuous laughter

bombastic: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose", bloated