| Term | Definition |
| misanthrope | [n] one who hates or mistrusts humankind |
| annihilate | [v] to destroy completely, to obliterate |
| antipathy | [n] strong feeling of hatred, aversion, revulsion |
| asceticism | [n] renouncing material comforts, living a life of renunciation and self-discipline |
| celibacy | [n] sexual abstinence, especially for religious vows |
| arabesque | [n] a complicated, intricate, or symmetrical pattern or design |
| disquiet | [adj] disturbed, unsettled, anxious, troubled |
| lascivous | [adj] given to or expressing lust or lewdness; salacious |
| predilection | [n] a liking, a disposition toward something |
| anarchy | [n] the absence of political authority, laws, rules; a state of lawlessness (but not nevessarily chaos) |
| invincible | [adj] incapable of being destroyed or defeated |
| avocation | [n] hobby or calling outside of one's work |
| awry | [adj] misshapen, turned, twisted, wrong, as in "his plans went awry" |
| poignant | [adj] keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; profoundly moving emotionally |
| indolence | [n] habitual laziness |
| abhor | [v] to loathe, to hate |
| imbibe | [v] to drink( as in liquid) or to drink in (as in ideas) |