| academicism |
in the arts, rigid adherence to accepted and traditional forms. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| dilatory |
used to cause a delay. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| fungible |
interchangeable. |
| gamut |
the whole extent or range of anything. |
| gloaming |
late evening; dusk; twilight. |
| gnomic |
short and pithy, as an aphorism. |
| gossamer |
delicately fine, gauzelike, or filmy. |
| indurate |
to make hard in texture; harden. |
| invidious |
tending to arouse feelings of resentment or animosity, especially because of a slight; offensive or discriminatory. |
| macerate |
to soften (food or the like) by soaking, as in digestion. |
| prolix |
wordy and boringly long. |