Lesson 7-8 vocab

didactic

Intended to teach

edify

To instruct for intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement

elucidate

To explain or make clear

erudite

Possessing great knowledge and scholarship

esoteric

Understood only by an elite, scholarly, or exclusive group; obscure

importune

To annoy with repeated and insistent requests; to ask for urgently or repeatedly

mediate

To help opposing sides reach an agreement; to intervene in a conflict in order to improve the situation

mitigate

To make less severe; to soften, lessen, or moderate

patronize

To support or sponsor/To treat as inferior

renovate

To restore something to an earlier condition, by repairing or remodeling

imbue

To inspire or influence thoroughly

indoctrinate

To instruct in or impart certain principles or ideology

pedagogy

The art or profession of teaching

pedantic

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

pundit

A person of great learning about a particular topic; an expert

aegis

Protection; sponsorship; guidance

amends

Something done to make up for a wrong, an injury, or a mistake; compensation

conciliatory

Peacemaking; appeasing; intended to overcome distrust, animosity, or conflict

conducive

Tending to cause or bring about; favorable to

extricate

To free from difficulty or entanglement