| Term | Definition |
| vicissitudes | a change of circumstances or fortune. |
| respendent | attractive and impressive. |
| assiduous | marked by care and persistent effort |
| malignmant | very infectious |
| morbid | in an unhealthy mental state, extremely gloomy; caused by or related to disease, unwholesome |
| sedulously | very diligent, accomplishing with painstaking care///assiduous, industrious |
| consigned | handed over, delivered |
| incurred | became subject or liable to |
| imbibe | take in liquids |
| verdure | lush greenness of flourishing vegetation |
| vagaries | an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance |
| baneful | causing ruin; harmful; pernicious |
| affinity | A natural attraction or feeling of kinship |
| impertinence | disrespect |
| vacuity | total lack of meaning or ideas |
| interposition | n. A coming between. |
| sophitry | reasoning of an argument that is clever and beleiveable |
| requisite | needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable |
| innocuous | unlikely to harm or disturb anyone |
| virulent | extremely poisonous or injurious |
| efficacy | effectiveness |
| ostensible | professed but not necessarily true |