| agog |
highly excited and full of anticipation. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| condone |
to pardon, disregard, or overlook voluntarily or without condemning. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| disquisition |
a formal, often lengthy, oral or written discussion of a subject. |
| elide |
to leave out or slur, as a syllable or letter, in pronunciation. |
| erudite |
having or showing a high level of scholarly knowledge; learned. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| heterodox |
deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine, especially in religion. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| pastiche |
a work of visual art, music, or literature that consists mostly of materials and techniques borrowed from other works, sometimes done as an exercise to learn the technique of others. |
| rapacious |
capable of capturing and eating live prey; predacious. |
| relict |
a plant, animal, or geological feature that has survived in a considerably changed environment. |
| solecism |
a gross violation of convention in grammar, etiquette, or the like; impropriety. |