| abstruse |
difficult to comprehend or understand; esoteric; arcane. |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| entreat |
to beg for something, or to do something. |
| exponent |
one that expounds or interprets. |
| heterodox |
deviating from an officially approved belief or doctrine, especially in religion. |
| inflection |
change that occurs in the form of words to show a grammatical characteristic such as the tense of a verb, the number of a noun, or the degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| lapidary |
an expert on or dealer in gemstones. |
| malinger |
to pretend illness or injury, especially in order to be excused from duty or work. |
| obscurantism |
a deliberate lack of clarity or directness of expression, as in certain styles of art or literature. |
| peripatetic |
walking or traveling around; going from place to place; itinerant. |
| pleonasm |
a redundant word, phrase, or expression. |
| sagacious |
possessing or characterized by good judgment and common sense; wise. |
| sotto voce |
in a low voice or undertone, so as not to be overheard; softly (often used as a musical direction). |
| woebegone |
displaying or full of distress. |