*****March 26, 2025***** embezzle : (verb) To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust.; defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate; The director embezzled $34 million in company funds before he was caught. fleshment : noun: Excitement resulting from a first success at something. ; "Lexicographers sought out the thrill of the chase as much as detectives did. She remembered her linguistic fleshment, when she'd discovered as a student that 'thrill' itself, in medieval times, had meant to pierce someone with a sword; only later did the 'piercing' move to excitement." Susie Dent; Guilty by Definition; Bonnier Books; 2024. Thought For The Day: There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment -- and nothing more corrupting. -A.J.P. Taylor, historian (25 Mar 1906-1990)