Quadrivial Quandary:  Logophiles, Rejoice!  Each day we give you four unusual words.  Can you fit them all in one illustrative sentence?
Quandary Resolution 582
vicissitude, meidan, cosmeticize, onus
"Hymie, du alter kaker, enough already - wha' d'ya mean, 'tolerate the vicissitudes of the velocipede' . . . and do you think I give a damn if Ahmadinejad called it a 'cosmeticized meidan'? - to me it's just Central Park in the dark, and if this stoned pedicab shvartzer shlepps us around the carousel just one more time - feh! - I'm gants fermisht, fershtay? - so the onus is on you, nebbish, to make him stop, nu?"
by Bud Myte on January 10, 2010

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