20 December 2022

Undergird: Provide support or firm basis. 

• Indeed, this perspective undergirds the entire writing-across-the-disciplines and writing-in-the-discipline movements. 

Ungainly: (of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.

• The impenetrability of most academic prose and the ungainly structure of our journal articles may repel laypeople, but that could be seen as a necessary evil.