| Term | Definition |
|---|
| condescending | patronizing, treating people as weak or inferior |
| contemptuous | scornful, showing or expressing disdain; scornful |
| despotic | exercising absolute power; tyrannical |
| disdain | intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt; to reject as unworthy |
| haughty | arrogant, condescending, vainly proud |
| imperious | arrogantly domineering or overbearing, commanding |
| cryptic | mysterious; hidden; secret |
| impede | To obstruct or interfere with; to delay |
| obscure | Not clearly understood or expressed, difficult to see, vague |
| quandary | dilemma, a state of uncertainty or perplexity |
| indolent | habitually lazy; inactive; slothful |
| insipid | lacking flavor; dull; not at all stimulating |
| disparity | inequality; difference |
| embellish | to decorate, adorn, touch up; to improve by adding details |
| florid | red-colored, flushed; gaudy, ornate |
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