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Elucidate

To make clear, clarify

Math teachers need to elucidate more when doing notes.

Exonerate

To clear of guilt.

When you forgive someone, you exonerate them.

Sonorous

Resonant, enriching sound, resounding in expression.

Choirs really need to be sonorous to be outstanding.

Eclectic

Diverse artistic styles, various components.

Mr. Williams has a very eclectic way of teaching.

Paragon

Best, supreme example.

Beyonce is the paragon to describe my music taste.

Harbinger

One who pioneers change, forerunner to new movement.

Nicki Minaj is the harbinger for women in the rap game.

Charlatan

Fraud, quack, phony

Your mom is a charlatan.

Marinet

Strict disciplinarian, cruel taskmaker

P. E. Teachers are martinets

Sycophant

Self-serving flatterer, parasite who lives off others good fortune.

Auntie Ann is a sycophant

Penitent

Feeling remorse for one's sins of misdeeds.

I felt penitent when I ditched p.e.

Dilettante

Lover of the arts, the literati

Pocourante wasn't a dilettante

Effulgent

Radiant, splendorous

Pageant queens are very effulgent

Picayune

Trivial, superficial, inane

Some would call me picayune

Malinger

To pretend to be I'll or injured to avoid work.

Sometimes I malinger to get out of school

Quandary

A dilemma, to equally bad choices.

The lesser of two evils.

Deference

Respect, veneration

I have a high deference for the president

Diatribe

Angus tirade, emotional outburst

Sometimes when Tyler is being particularly irritating I go on a diatribe

Antiquity

Ancient times

Candide is from antiquity

Recidivism

Tendency to relapse into criminal behavior.

People who have been to prison have a higher recidivism

Torpor

Apathetic, indifferent

Teachers are very torpor to their students grade.

Pendantic

Proudly academic, bookish, knowledgeable

Kaila and Alex are very pedantic

Perfunctory

Ordinary, boring

Some classes are very perfunctory

Bucolic

Pastoral setting, idyllic, serene atmosphere

Bucolic is very edenic.