| Term | Definition |
| Pompous | overly self important in speech or manner; excessively stately |
| Arduous | hard to do, requiring much effort |
| Intrepid | very brave, fearless, unshakable |
| Pliant |  bending readily, easily influenced |
| Auspicious | favorable; fortunate |
| Fated | determined in advance by destiny or fortune |
| Biased | favoring one side unduly; prejudiced |
| Inanimate | not having life; without energy or spirit |
| Access | approach or admittance to place, persons, or thing; an increase; to get, obtain |
| Larceny | theft |
| Anarchy | a lack of government and law; confusion |
| Precipice |  a very steef cliff; the brink or edge of disaster |
| Reprieve | a teporary relief or delay to grant a postponement |
| Revile | to attack with words, call bad names |
| Rectify | to make right, correct |
| Abscond | to run off and hide |
| Incinerate | to burn to ashes |
| Daunt | to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage |
| Disentangle | to free from tangles or complications |
| Hoodwink | to mislead by a trick, deceive |