| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| atonement |
the act of making reparation for a sin, crime, error, or the like. |
| avow |
to assert or affirm. |
| canny |
difficult to fool or take advantage of; shrewd; wary; clever. |
| disencumber |
to remove burdens or hindrances from. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| highbrow |
one who has or pretends to have highly sophisticated intellectual and cultural interests and tastes (often used disparagingly). |
| impediment |
an obstacle or hindrance. |
| inchoate |
partially or imperfectly developed. |
| inculcate |
to cause to accept an idea or value; imbue. |
| oppugn |
to oppose, contradict, criticize, or call into question. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| solipsism |
the self-centered habit of interpreting and judging all things exclusively according to one's own concepts of meaning and value. |
| stanch1 |
to cause (a liquid, especially blood) to stop flowing. |
| stately |
dignified. |