| Term | Definition |
| exonerated | freed from blame, obligation or task |
| seclusion | solitude |
| affinity | natural attraction, liking or feeling of kindship |
| capricious | governed by impulse; lacking a rational basis |
| recluses | those who withdraw from the world |
| derision | contemptious or jeering laughter |
| din | jumble of loud sands |
| defaced | mar or spoil the appearence of a surface |
| listless | lacking energy |
| amiability | friendly or agreeable in disposition |
| trepidation | state of alarm or dread |
| pummel | to beat (as with fists) |
| benevolent | characterized by or doing good |
| malevolent | wishing harm to others |
| inscrutably | difficult to fathom or understand |
| sanctified | to set apart for sacred use |
| morose | sully melancholy; gloomy |
| aberration | deviation from the proper course |
| reciprocated | showed, felt, or gave a response |
| disparagement | to speak of in a slighting way |
| circuitously | being or taken randabout |
| portmanteau | large leather suitcase that opens into two high hinged compartments |