Directions: Choose appropriate meaning of the words in bold as per their contextual use.

Compared with his earlier, delightfully inventive work, his second novel was disappointingly prosaic.

Prosaic means lacking poetic beauty, dull, or unimaginative - the opposite of inventive and creative. The sentence contrasts his first novel's 'delightfully inventive' quality with the second one being disappointingly ordinary and lacking creativity. 'Unimaginative' perfectly captures this sense of something commonplace and lacking artistic flair.