X
Xenophobic
An extreme hatred of people who belong to a different race.
Something a fascist would be, if he could spell it.
Y
Youth
An early stage in the journey from birth to death.
The time when we do so much damage to the rest of our lives without being aware of it, or the condition of knowing everything, without knowing that most of it came before anyway. Then there is youth as a collective noun, which is those who refuse to accept that only the best of their culture will survive, which will probably be very little.
Z
Z
The last letter of the alphabet.
A letter of which there is only one on the Scrabble board when so many words require two
