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• asthmatic:an asthmatic attack
• asthma:a medical condition which makes breathing difficult by causing the air passages to become narrow or blocked
• polygamy:the fact or custom of being married to more than one person at the same time
• homicide:murder
  • He was convicted of homicide.
• slouch:
• wheeze:
• henpeck:
• hoi polloi [hoi-puh-LOI] noun:The common people generally; the masses.
  • (Hoi polloi is Greek for "the many.")

America's cereal queen [Marjorie Merriweather Post, heir to the Post Cereal fortune] had the same problems that the hoi polloi have -- philandering husbands, messy divorces, soggy Grape-Nuts.