Words that rarely turn up in books often get omitted from dictionaries, including slenthum (an Indonesian musical instrument) and, ironically, deletable.
The Parliament at Westminster controlled the south and east. From there it raised troops and imposed two new forms of taxation, the assessment and the excise (a tax on the purchase of goods).
But to no one would she grant her confidence, answering all taunts with bitter sarcasm, and all serious expostulation with sullen denial, or with floods of tears.
But if she says "thanks A LOT" then that's meant as sarcasm and you should definitely not say "you're welcome" then she will reply with "whatever. " Refer to #8.
To cut through the confusion, researchers have developed a computer program that can identify sarcasm in online communities with an accuracy rate of about 80 percent.