| apropos |
appropriate; relevant; opportune. |
| dawdle |
to waste time; be slow. |
| disabuse |
to free (a person) from misconception or deception; set straight. |
| discomfit |
to upset or confuse. |
| doggerel |
trivial, crudely constructed verse. |
| exegesis |
a critical explanation or interpretive analysis, especially of religious texts. |
| hagiography |
an admiring and uncritical biography of anyone. |
| homily |
any discourse offering moral advice or admonitions. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| maladroit |
not skillful; clumsy; tactless. |
| neophyte |
a beginner or novice at any activity. |
| penury |
severe poverty; pennilessness. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| Sabbatarian |
one who observes the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews and certain Christians. |
| salvo |
the firing of guns or other firearms simultaneously or in succession, especially as a salute. |