Word of the Day
Graft (n./v.)
To transplant something, to join a bud to a plant, and generally to cause to become one. But there's another meaning: to use political power for maximum personal benefit. This actually comes from the same meaning (you're misdirecting funds to another place just like you'd be joining something that didn't need to be there onto the existing plant/object) but it's a very negative connotation, unlike the primary meaning.