- affable: friendly and kind
- anodyne: a pain reliever
- asserverate: to state serverely
- cloister: to seclude
- contiguous: touching
- egregious: blantant
- equipoise: balance
- iconoclasm: ridiculing institutions
- intractable: stubborn
- mordacious: biting
- nonpareil: something unequaled
- recherche: rarely choice
- sagacity: discerning wisdom
- superannuated: obsolete
- unctous: oily