As Professor Cuthbert Binns waffled throughout his arcane history lectures, he hardly noticed the lack of plaudit from his second-year students. Hermione Granger was the only vivacious student among the otherwise torpid class who considered Binns' accounts to be yarns full of gems, each word of which she scribbled frugally with her blue ink quill.
waffle: to talk vaguely and without much result
arcane: concerning obscure knowledge
plaudit: praise, approval
vivacious: lively; high spirited
yarn: long entertaining story
torpid: sleeping; sluggish; lethargic; dormant
frugal: careful; economical
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