GRE vocabulary

Pablum

Trite, simplistic, or insipid intellectual fare; a soft, bland, and easily digestible food product

Example

"After years of reading complex philosophy, the professor found the popular self-help book to be nothing but intellectual pablum."

From the trademark name of a bland infant cereal, derived from Latin 'pabulum' (food, fodder).

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