Teaching Styles and Educational Vocabulary 7

Form 4B

didactic

Intended to teach; overly moralistic; preachy.

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.

imbue

To inspire or influence thoroughly; to stain or dye thoroughly.

indoctrinate

To instruct in or impart certain principles or ideology.

pedagogy

The art or profession of teaching; the body of knowledge related to education and 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; a source of opinion; a critic.