| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| despoil |
to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| eidetic |
pertaining to or designating the ability to recall images in almost perfect detail. |
| gullible |
believing almost anything; easily tricked. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| inanition |
a state of exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment. |
| inveigle |
to entice or ensnare by clever talk or flattery. |
| naturalism |
in literature, a method of depicting life that reflects a philosophy of determinism. |
| opiate |
something that induces relaxation, calm, or stupor. |
| pedantic |
making or characterized by an excessive display of learnedness, or overly insistent on scholarly details and formalities. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| pusillanimous |
shamefully timid; cowardly. |