| academicism |
in the arts, rigid adherence to accepted and traditional forms. |
| attenuate |
to cause to be thin, rarefied, or fine. |
| banal |
lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite. |
| benign |
causing little or no harm. |
| flout |
to show scorn or contempt for, especially by openly or deliberately disobeying. |
| froward |
unwilling to agree or obey; stubborn; perverse. |
| limn |
to paint or draw. |
| maunder |
to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| peroration |
the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up of the principal points. |
| purvey |
to supply or provide (especially food, drink, or other provisions). |
| recessional |
a piece of music that accompanies the exit of participants in a program or religious ceremony. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| splenetic |
ill-tempered or spiteful. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |