Hello, students. It is I, your teacher, Matt Striker, and I am here to enlighten you with another session of aerobics for the mind.

Last week, we discussed inculcate, the only possible method of cultivating a vacant cranium like that of the Sandman. This week’s word takes on a much more positive connotation. This week’s word:

Benevolent [be-nev-o-lent] – marked by or disposed to doing good

As in, “the chronically inebriated Sandman is anything but benevolent.” Let me reiterate in more simplified terms. One who is benevolent is a contributor, a benefactor, a giver. One who is benevolent provides good for society. If a police officer asks, let’s say, Sandman, to pull his vehicle to the side of the road because he was driving at a rate that is excessive to the speed limit while under the influence of giggle water, that bureaucrat is a benevolent public servant for administering a safe roadway without precarious, inebriated drivers.

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