Teachonary: a teacher's
compilation of terms

(produced due to extreme boredom
while students are taking their third long exam)

Adlib

what a teacher does after scribbling notes on the board.

Chalk

the white thing used to write notes on the black board which either serves as an alternative face powder to teachers, or ends up at the back of a teacher's dark-colored shirt.

Freshly Powdered Chair

green chairs turning white, after the board is erased.

Eraser

the thing supposedly used to clean the blackboard but turns it into a fascinating white mess instead.

Lookmates

students who look alike, wear the same type of clothes, sit beside one another for the whole semester, which could test a teacher's spot-the-difference skills

Pressure

what students should not do to a teacher who is not in the mood to check the papers because the amount of pressure varies inversely as the partial points given.

Skills

what students supposedly gain after doing the exercises and practice problems.

Tons of scratch paper

what students consume during "strenuous" mathematical exercises - whether they gained skills or not.

Parenthesis

those cute little dangerous things within students' algebraic solutions which can lead to disaster if not used properly.