My bro leaves for Shanghai:

Words that every educated person should know...

recreant, levity, daft, fissile, stoicism, felicitous, ratiocination, inanely, voluble, anathema, patina, brinkmanship, panoply, comportment, propriety, irascible, ingenuous, whimsy, reticent, logorrhea, piety, nepotism, overt, dictum, ostensibly, exigent, pacifism, tautology, nostrum, polemical, hubris, demagoguery, hyperbole, malfeasance, culpable, subsumes, fawning, paternalism, egregious, politicking, adroit, obsequiousness, pernicious, salient, austerity, excoriate, acrimony, Luddite, polemic, panacea, volte-face, ignominious, vicissitudes, transmogrified, eleemosynary, convoke, harbinger, autodidact, salmagundi, furtiveness, iconoclastic, dialectical, onerous, lacunae, capriciously, inculcating, deus ex machina, rictus, diatribe, trifecta, epiphenomenon, vilification, attenuates, parochial, Delphic, nugatory, scintillating, coeval, rued, neocolonialism, conciliator, dynamism, reticence, brouhaha, archaic, centrifugal, rigmarole, miscegenation, despotic, idiosyncratic, consternation, pedantic, acquiesced, renascent, contumely, metonymic, prolific, caprice, adjudicate, mercurial, chattel, diminutive, edifying, captious, umbrage, autocratic, Malthusianism, pert, vituperative, pariah, temerity, conciliatory, abrogate, reprehensible, jaundiced, adiposity, cantankerous, pecuniary, juxtaposition, vacuous, ineradicable, prevaricated, exhorted, vociferously, agglomeration, nexus, proviso, abscond, propitious, volitional, specious, circuitous, fiat, reprobate, egalitarianism, ancillary, fetter, eschewing, evince, circumlocution, devolution, baroque, tacit, chaste, arbitrage, parvenu, demagogue, lionize, seditious, cringing, epistemology, perambulate, sumptuous, rhetoricians, deluge, impetus, manifold, sobriquet, irrefragable, vogue, concomitant, compunction, vilifying, unrequited, sanctimonious, rancor, wheedle, gestalt, repudiate, epic, pundits, analogue, scruple, eschew, ennui, fiat, asinine, statist, homily, imbroglio, volition, vociferous, xenophobic, hamlets, megalomaniac, imbibe, officious, epigone, amenable, frisson, phlegmatic, sycophancy, exuberant, metonymy, supposition, repudiation, immutable, proselytizing, acquisitive, sacrosanct, retrograde, Byzantine, peculation, denigration, anachronistic, apocryphal, bereft, pithy, debauchery, fecundity, avarice, calumny, redoubts, animist, abject, edacious, acrimonious, gala, recalcitrant, amiable, accolade, perquisite, colloquial, allay, modicum, perforce, efficacy, insipid, presumption, ballast, ergo, digerati, tenacious, taxonomy, anaemic, admonishing, Rubicon, assiduously, paucity, spurious, admonitions, sardonic, solidarity, endogenously, dilettante, germane, somniferous, commination, antipathy, plenary, arduous, centripetal, draconian, audacious

... just kidding. This is just a compilation of interesting words that I've been collecting for about a year now. As soon as I'm able to pick a random word on this list and give the definition, I'll stop going to school. This is the test.

It's not like me to start something like this, but after seeing how my brother's updating everyone from a bike in china and my sister's doing the same from Brussells, I felt a little left out.

So here I am, holding down the fort in North America. My brother's advancing into Asia and my sister's taking on Belgium by storm. The Axis of Harringtonization is fully operational. Be afraid.