Cynthia the Terminator does not know the meaning of the word "accost"; "harangue"; "empathy"

Watch out for two-faced meat cleavers.


Cynthia does not know the meaning of the word "harangue" either perhaps because for her she slips into it so effortlessly.  Despite her insistent demands, I failed in my efforts to explain the meaning of the word to her, as she cut me off, and had to firmly tell her to consult Webster's.   


Dear Cynthia Klever, Director of the downtown YMCA,

AWESOME!   I love your command of the English language.

No, I never said you were a horse's ass.

So glad to tell you what I really think of you to your face, just as you were chewing gum in my fact.  

I know you were undoubedly not insincere when you suggested a meeting "to resolve the email."   Your honesty is awesome.

As in when you said, "We have tried to accomodate you in every possible way..." which included getting your lifeguards not to make swimmers get out of the pool 5-20 minutes before the actual closing time.

I sincerely hope that you get what you so richly deserve in life.

accost

transitive verb

1. to approach and speak to; greet first, before being greeted, esp. in an intrusive way

ha·rangue

həˈraNG/

verb

1. 1.

   lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner.

   
   

Cynthia does not know the meaning of the word "hypocrite."  She was too busy haranguing me.  At this point I was too exhausted (and battered) to try to explain it to her.

hypocrite

      noun hyp·o·crite \ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\

: a person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a way that disagrees with those beliefs

I suspect I would have a real struggle trying to explain the meaning of the last word here to Cynthia:

empathy

1

:  the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

2

:  the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also :  the capacity for this