A college student was delivering pizza to a regular customer"s house in New York.
The guy who answered the door asked him, "What is the usual tip?"
"Well," replied the youth,"this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I"ll be doing great."
"Is that so?" snorted the man. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here"s five dollars."
"Thanks!" replied the youth, "I"ll put this in my school fund."
"What are you studying?" asked the man.
The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."
- (attrib.) That reveals or betrays (tell-tale smile).
- automatic monitoring or registering device.
TEMERITY
n. Rashness; audacity. [latin temere rashly]
TEMPLATE
n. Piece of thin board or metal plate etc., used as a pattern in cutting or drilling etc. [originally templet, diminutive of temple, device in a loom to keep the cloth stretched]
TEMPORAL
adj. - worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular.
- of time.
- gram. Denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
- of the temples of the head (temporal artery). [latin tempus -por- time]
TEMPTING
adj. Attractive, inviting. temptingly adv.
TENANTRY
n. Tenants of an estate etc.
TENDENCY
n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. By to, towards) leaning or inclination. [medieval latin: related to *tend1]
TENEMENT
n. - room or flat within a house or block of flats.
- (also tenement-house or -block) house or block so divided. [latin teneo hold]
