| Term | Definition |
| Chattel | noun: personal as opposed to real property |
| Impetus | noun: a force that moves something along |
| Barbarity | noun: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane |
| Obdurate | adj: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings |
| Maxim | noun: a saying that widely accepted on its own merits |
| Impudence | noun: the trait of being rude and impertinent |
| Subversion | noun: destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty |
| Censure | noun: harsh criticism or disapproval |
| Scanty | adj: lacking in amplitude or quantity |
| Rapture | noun: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion |
| Servility | noun: abject or cringing submissiveness |
| Vestige | noun: an indication that something has been present |
| Incur | verb: make oneself subject to |
| Blasphemy | noun: blasphemous behavior, blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) |
| Fester | verb: Ripen and generate pus |