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FLOUT
- To treat with contemptuous disregard, scorn.
- Usage: Excerpt from U.S. President George W. Bush's speech to the United Nations General Counsel.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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KUFI
- Traditional Muslim headwear, usually made of white knit cloth.
- Usage: Coverage of incident of alleged terrorist threats made by three students from the Chicago area on their way to Miami to attend a medical school program, who were overheard by a woman in a restaurant who believed the men, one of whom was wearing a kufi, were on their way to commit a terrorist act and alerted authorities, who detained, questioned and then released the men, citing lack of evidence.
Source: Compiled from various sources.
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SCARF
- To eat or drink voraciously; devour.
- Usage: Coverage of daily Pentagon briefing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, used to describe the feast of information intelligence agencies consume each day in pursuit of possible terrorists or terrorist threats.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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SIMPATICO
- Agreeable, likable; being on the same wavelength; congenial, sympathetic.
- Usage: Coverage of daily Pentagon briefing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, used to describe nations that may or may not be open to working with terrorists to attack their common enemies.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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VIS-A-VIS
- Face to face with; in relation to; as compared with.
- Usage: Report on summit between Japan and North Korean leaders.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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