| corpulency | bulkiness or largeness of body; fatness; portliness |
| cadaverous | of or like a corpse |
| vivacious | lively; animated; gay |
| colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. |
| nadir | the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair |
| propensity | a natural inclination or tendency |
| ascetic | a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons |
| staid | of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious. |
| temperance | moderation or self-restraint in action, statement, etc.; self-control |
| muse | to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject. |
| gestation | to carry in the womb during the period from conception to delivery. |
| magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness |