9 April 2016

• Epithet: Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality. 
• He also strongly objected to being called a "management guru"-an epithet often tied to him.  (Manfred J. Hoefle)
• Harried: Feeling strained as a result of having demands persistently made on one; harassed.  
• It was organized by the "Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski and the new-media mogul Arianna Huffington, and conceived, Huffington said, to correct a problem that she had perceived in herself and other harried strivers. (Lizzie Widdicombe)
• Titter: To laugh in a restrained, self conscious, or affected way, as from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement. 
• Brzezinski added, to titters, "You're not going to think 'monk' when he walks onstage!" (Lizzie Widdicombe)