Well, every day I used to draw caricatures of my immediate boss, Larry Martin, portraying him as a mustachioed, hook-nosed, toothy villain, replete with dirty laugh.

replete (adj) 1: filled to satisfaction with food or drink [syn: full] 2: (followed by with) deeply filled or permeated – source: An Interview with Bob Clampett

Does it rankle, being separated in this way?

rankle (v) : gnaw into; make resentful or angry [syn: eat into, fret, grate] – source: Gandhi R2 DVD, 2:24:04

Then to prove to the new viceroy that the king’s writ no longer runs in India.

writ (n) : (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer [syn: judicial writ] – source: Gandhi R2 DVD, 1:59:11

Sedition must become our creed.

sedition (n) : an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government – source: Gandhi R2 DVD, 1:52:08

Forgive me, gentlemen, but you must understand that His Majesty’s government and the British people repudiate both the massacre and the philosophy that prompted it.

repudiate (v) 1: cast off or disown [syn: renounce] 2: refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid 3: refuse to recognize or pay 4: reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust – source: Gandhi R2 DVD, 1:30:58

Increases in food production may temporarily alleviate the problem, but it is mathematically certain that they cannot be a long-term solution; indeed, like the medical advances that have precipitated the crisis, they may well make the problem worse, by speeding up the rate of the population expansion.

precipitate (v) 1: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles 2: bring about abruptly 3: fall from clouds [syn: come down, fall] 4: fall vertically, sharply, or headlong 5: hurl or throw violently – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 111

I find it more parsimonious to think of him as selecting at a lower level, the level of independent candidates.

parsimonious (adj) : excessively unwilling to spend [syn: penurious] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 86

But this is for a reason not germane to our discussion.

germane (adj) : having close kinship and appropriateness [syn: related] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 56

This particular sperm (unless you are a non-identical twin) was the only one of the flotilla which found harbour in one of your mother’s eggs – that is why you exist.

flotilla (n) 1: a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships 2: a fleet of small craft – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 30

The same old process of automatic selection between rival molecules by reason of their longevity, fecundity, and copying-fidelity, still go on as blindly and as inevitably as they did in the far-off days.

fecundity (n) 1: the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination [syn: fruitfulness] 2: the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring [syn: fertility] 3: the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth [syn: fruitfulness] – source: The Selfish Gene, p. 24