| crudites | (noun) raw vegetables cut into bite-sized strips and served with a dip | - |
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| crudity | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, gaucheness |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| eruditely | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: learnedly |
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| eruditeness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| erudition | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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| hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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| intruding | (adjective) projecting inward | - |
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| protruding | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| prudish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| prudishly | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: puritanically |
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| prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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| rudiment | (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life | - |
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| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| rudiments | (noun) the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural) | Synonyms: alphabet, first principles |
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| (noun) a statement of fundamental facts or principles | Synonyms: basics |