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Kinship
Relationship, usually through blood.
The erroneous belief, particularly in times of war, that some people have something in common with other people. Otherwise a meaningless system of relationships which seem to make sense at Christmas.
Kiss of death
An act portending doom.
There is also a kiss of life, which is a medical procedure to assist a patient who has breathing problems. Now that makes sense since the kiss, to a lover, is an affirmation of life. The kiss of death is another of those oxymoron’s.
Kitchen
A place where food is prepared.
A place where men dominate and women excel. Otherwise the graveyard of all hopes and aspirations. Cavemen threw a whole bison on the fire and it was only a disaster if a sabre tooth tiger got there first. Now we look on cooking as a situation of courting then averting disaster. It is the art of preparing food for the stomach rather than for the eye and when it is the subject of a television program it is entertainment for those who have not prepared something earlier.
Kleptomania
Theft as a compulsive or addictive behaviour.
You could say it was the political theory of the re-distribution of property when given credence by the psychiatric profession, or you could just say it was theft when committed by the middle classes.
Knowledge
The opposite of ignorance.
A medical condition which results in an excess of facial hair in some men, or the codification of trivia by those same men. And for other men it is a matter of shame or pride, like the size of their penis.
