• flebile (adj.) — feeble, faint, sad/sorrowful tone
• pedagogue (noun)
  1. a teacher or educator
  2. someone that is dull, formal, pedantic
• steelman (noun) — a strong or effective opposition to an argument
• tegular (adj.) — relating to or resembling a tile, consisting of tiles, arranged like tiles
• bathos (noun)
  1. an abrupt, unintended juxtaposition between the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect
  2. an anticlimax
  3. insincere or grossly sentimental pathos
• bathetic (adj.) — characterized by or pertaining to bathos