| Term | Definition |
| despotic | exercising absolute power, tyrannical |
| effusive | emotionally unrestrained; pouring forth, gushy |
| egregious | conspicuously bad or offensive |
| frentic | wildly excited or active |
| gratuitious | given freely, unearned, unjustified, unwarranted |
| copious | abundant; plentiful |
| permeate | to spread of flow throughout; to penetrate |
| prodigious | enormous |
| replete | completely filled; abundantly supplied |
| benign | kind and gentle |
| emollient | softening and calming |
| mollify | to clam or soften |
| slander | to speak badly about someone publicly; to defame; to spread malicious rumor; false charges on someone |
| ruse | a crafty trick; a stratagem |
| stratagem | a clever trick used to deceive or outwit; a ruse |
| wily | cunning |
| dogged | stubbornly persevering |
| maverick | a nonconformist ; a rebel; one who is independent and resists adherence to a group |
| obdurate | stubborn; inflexible; intractable |
| proliferate | to grow or increase rapidly |