| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abstruse | obscure; profound; difficult to understand |
| affable | easy-going; friendly |
| audacity | fearless daring; boldness |
| contrite | thoroughly remorseful and repentant of one's sins |
| credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| depravity | moral corruption or degradation |
| deprecate | to express strong disapproval of; to belittle |
| didactic | instructive; designed to teach |
| dormant | inactive; in a state of suspension; sleeping |
| enigmatic | puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood |
| erudite | scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic |
| exotic | foreign, unfamiliar |
| fuse | to join together, as if by melting |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| incorrigible | not able to be corrected; beyond control |
| loathe | to hate or dislike greatly |
| mitigate | to make milder or softer; to moderate in force or intensity |
| nullify | to cause not to be in effect, to negate |
| pacifistic | opposed to war or the use of force |
| pretentious | showy; pompous; claiming unjustified distinction |
| prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
| recant | to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract |
| servile | overly submissive |
| trepidation | fear; nervous apprehension |
| vilify | to make vicious statements about; to malign, to defame |
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