| Term | Definition |
| affinity | a natural attraction or feeling of kinship |
| mortifying | humiliating |
| discomfited | made uneasy or perplexed |
| propound | to put forward for consideration |
| sullen | showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment |
| aversion | a fixed, intense dislike |
| appendage | something added or attached to an entity of greater importance or size |
| capricious | characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable |
| reticent | inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; restrained or reserved in style |
| ignominiously | characterized by disgrace or shame |
| adamantine | rigidly firm (as in attitude or opinion) |
| ruminate | to turn a matter over and over in the mind |
| ascertain | to discover with certainty |
| din | a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds |
| fortuitously | happening by a fortunate accident or chance |
| impious | lacking in proper respect (usually related to religion) |
| toady | a person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons |
| corrugated | shaped into parallel and alternating ridges and grooves |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| sanguine | relating to the color of blood |