Michael Burleigh's favorite word

maladroit |ˌmaləˈdroit|
adjective
ineffective or bungling; clumsy.

I am making my class read an 800 page book by Burleigh. I am taking this occasion to improve my vocabulary.

I think my class does not like the book so much, but I love it! And then I force them to say that they love it, too, by asking them in class what they think of it. Then they all name things about it that they appreciate about it in order to make me think that they in fact read it. Even though I know that secretly, many did not.