| Term | Definition |
| Acumen | keen insight |
| Beatific | serene |
| Calumnious | slanderous |
| Circumvent | to avoid |
| Crystalline | clear; transparent |
| Denigrate | to tarnish the reputation of someone usually with unkind words |
| Dire | indicating trouble or disaster |
| Enclave | social unit enclosed within a foreign territory |
| Expostulate | to reason with someone |
| Idiom | an expression |
| Inexorable | unalterable |
| Nascent | beginning to exist or develop |
| Peruse | to read through with thoroughness or care |
| Provocative | causing a reaction |
| Requiem | funeral mass |
| Surcease | an ending |
| Voracious | greedy in eating; eager |