| defeatist |
characterized by an acceptance or expectation of failure. |
| disavow |
to deny having (knowledge, intention, or the like). |
| emanate |
to come or send forth; issue or emit. |
| inelegant |
without taste, grace, or refinement. |
| infamy |
evil or shameful reputation. |
| informant |
one who reports or confides what he or she knows to another; source. |
| iota |
an extremely small amount. |
| languid |
lacking or not showing strength, energy, or spirit; weak, slow, or listless. |
| overweening |
particularly forward, vain, and self-promoting. |
| plagiarize |
to wrongfully and deliberately claim as one's own (the ideas, words, or the like) of someone else. |
| promontory |
a high cliff that sticks out into a large body of water or that rises above an area of lower land. |
| prosaic |
straightforward and plain; unimaginative; dull. |
| rote |
unthinking or mechanical routine or habit. |
| terse |
effectively brief and to the point; concise; pithy. |
| unconscionable |
not restrained or guided by a concern for what is right and just; unprincipled. |