| apposite |
fitting; pertinent; appropriate. |
| asperity |
harshness or roughness, especially of tone or manner. |
| denigrate |
to deny the worth of; sneer at; belittle. |
| derision |
mockery or ridicule. |
| flagitious |
viciously or shamefully wicked; infamous. |
| harbinger |
someone or something that signals or foreshadows a later arrival or occurrence; herald; forerunner. |
| imprimatur |
any official permission or sanction. |
| incumbent |
currently holding an office or position. |
| ingenuous |
having or showing simplicity and lack of sophistication; artless. |
| mahatma |
(sometimes capitalized) in Buddhism and theosophy, any of a class of persons revered for their wisdom and love of humanity. |
| meretricious |
appealing or attracting in a cheap, showy, or shallow way. |
| ostentation |
a showy display to impress others. |
| 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. |
| pedagogy |
the act, process, or profession of teaching. |
| surcingle |
a girth or belt that wraps around the body of a horse to secure a saddle, pack, or the like to its back. |