| Term | Definition |
| burgeoned | to grow (verb) |
| vivacious | lively (adjective) |
| enumerated | named one by one (verb) |
| superfluous | unnecessary, extra / pointless (adjective) |
| postulated | theorized (verb) |
| suffuse | to spread over or saturate (verb) |
| asunder | to break into separate pieces (verb) |
| inculcate | to teach through repetition (verb) |
| truculently | cruel and savage (adverb) |
| ruminating | pondering (verb) |
| imploringly | to beg (adverb) |
| genial | friendly (adjective) |
| satiety | to fully satisfy (noun) |
| intrinsically | innately, naturally (adverb) |
| malignant | bad and evil (adjective) |
| inexorably | not capable of being persuaded (adverb) |
| reciprocated | exchanged / returned (verb) |
| veneer | thin surface layer (noun) |
| portentously | pompously, arrogantly (adverb) |
| mirth | gladness, happy (noun) |
| venerable | commanding respect (adjective) |
| harbinger | foreshadowing of what is to come (noun) |
| usurp | to take over (verb) |
| moribund | at the point of death (adjective) |
| obstinately | stubbornly (adverb) |
| stoically | unemotionally (adverb) |
| subversive | undermining authority (adjective) |