Vocab 7 Flashcards

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Edify

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To instruct for intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.

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Didactic

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Intended to teach

Overly moralistic; preach

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Elucidate

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To explain to make clear

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Erudite

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Possessing great knowledge and scholarship

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Esoteric

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Understand only by an elite? Scholarly, or exclusive group; obscure

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Imbue

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To inspire or influence throughly

To stain or dye throughly

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Indoctrinate

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To instruct in or impact certain principles or ideology

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Pedagogy

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The art or profession of teaching

The body of knowledge related to education and teaching

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with our narrowly focused on book learning or formal rules

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Pundit

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A person of great learning about a particular topic; expert

A source of opinion; a critic

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