Next thing you know, the Avaricious will move in and ruin the neighborhood.

Student: Avaricious is the noun of avarice, right?

Me: Avarice is the noun.

Student: Then what is avaricious?

Me: Something that you just made up.

Student: No, it's a word.

Me: Yeah, it is a word. It's an adjective.

Student: Adjectives are words too. Don't be racist.

On your test, don't forget to decimate!

Student: What does decimation mean?

Me: Do you know what decimate means?

Student: Yes.

Me: What is it?

Student: When you put a number into decimals.

Me: Yes, but only if you then completely destroy it.

'Cuz we all look the same.

Student: But that clearly doesn't apply to you because you are Korean.

Me: I'm not Korean.

Student: I thought you were Korean.

Me: We do this every week. I'm not Korean.

Student: I thought you were. You are, aren't you?

Me: Still not Korean.

Mallard!

Student: Evade means to sidestep?

Me: A better definition is . . . I can't think of the word. What's another word for duck?

Student: The animal?

Me: To avoid. Evade also means to avoid.

Student: I thought you meant the animal.

Dumb Models.

Me: So after Dalton's solid atom and Thomson's discovery of electrons, it was Rutherford's Gold Foil Experiment. What did he discover?

Student: He found that the atom was mostly empty space and that there was a positive nucleus and then Bohr said there were electron orbitals.

Me: Fixed orbitals, but yes.

Student: But that is wrong.

Me: Yes, we now know it is an electron cloud.

Student: Dalton's model is the lamest.

Me: . . .

Student: All he said is that things are made up of tiny invisible dots. Thanks a lot Dalton.