S- an insipid view of history
jejune
S- the overblown rhetoric of the politician
turgid
S- entreat the captain on behalf of his son
supplicate
S- a meandering, complicated plot
tortuous
S- a didactic way of addressing the group
sententious
S- too naïve to perceive trickery
credulous
S- a mélange of spices
potpourri