quandary
state of uncertainty; dilemma
He was in a quandary about whether to do his laundry; he liked the grunge look,
but his clothes were beginning to smell.
quarantine
isolate because of a disease
We had to quarantine this word so that it wouldn’t infect its neighbors and make
them queasy.
quixotic
having the same foolish, impractical, romantic idealism as Don Quixote
(Really, this isn’t a pun.)
Nestlé’s CEO had the quixotic notion of making Quik exotic by offering flavors
like sun-dried tomato.
quorum
minimum number of people who have to be at a meeting in order for the
meeting to be official
(It sounds like a video game, doesn’t it?)
Before the council can begin the boredom, it’s required that they have a quorum.
A Quick Meeting of Minds
“Quorum, quorum, we must have a quorum!” shouted the leader.
“Why?” asked an idiot. “Qualitatively speaking, it’s quicker to quantify the
quarks in a quarter.”
“We need a quantitative estimate of how many quacks are here.”