| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Inflammatory | tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion |
| Ingenious | characterized by cleverness or originality of invention or construction |
| Interminable | incapable of being terminated, unending |
| Irrefutable | Impossible to deny or disproved |
| Languish | to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade |
| Luminous | radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright. |
| Macabre | gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible. |
| Meticulous | taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough |
| Oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few. |
| Oratory | skill or eloquence in public speaking |
| Parsimonious | cheaepness; frugal or stingy. |
| Placid | pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed |
| Pompous | Characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance. |
| Privation | Lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life |
| Propensity | a natural inclination or tendency |
| Quell | to suppress; put an end to; extinguish |
| Repression | subdue someone or something by force, extinguish |
| Sabotage | any underhand interference with production, work |
| Subversive | to overthrow (something established or existing). |
| Suffragette | a woman advocate of female suffrage. |
| Swarthy | Dark |
| Tumult | violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar |
| Unbridled | not controlled or restrained |
| Volition | the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing |
| Voluminous | forming, filling, or taking up much space |
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