While news shows are supposed to be written at a 6th-grade or lower level, the FOX News Channel snuck in a fancy word today, apoplectic, in describing the reaction of police to media discovering a tarot card outside of the school where a kid was hit by sniper fire the other day. Perhaps FOX is involved in some shady subminal scheme to enhance American vocabularies...

ap·o·plec·tic adj.
Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy: an apoplectic fit.
Having or inclined to have apoplexy.
Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy.
Extremely angry; furious: “members of Congress who otherwise become apoplectic about wasteful government spending” (Dan Morgan).