| Term | Definition |
| amalgam | mixture |
| tawdry | gaudy and cheap |
| disseminate | to scatter widely |
| anchronistic | in the wrong time period |
| bombastic | given to pompous speech or writing |
| censure | to issue official blame |
| indict | to officially charge with wrongdoing |
| esoteric | understood only by a small group |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable content |
| felicitous | admirably suited |
| mendacious | lying |
| impetus | impulse, stimulus |
| extol | to praise highly |
| assimilate | to make or become absorbed |
| incongruous | lacking in harmony; incompatible |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength |
| flippant | disrespectfully humorous or casual |
| sanguine | optimistic |
| gratuitous | unnecessary |
| subterfuge | deceptive strategem |
| extraneous | irrelevant; inessential |
| extirpate | to destroy |
| erratic | inconstitent |