| virtuoso | a highly skilled performer |
| temerity | foolish or heedless disregard of danger |
| volition | act of using one's will; act of making a conscious choice |
| torpor | lethargy; sluggishness; inability to think or act quickly |
| quandary | state of doubt or puzzlement |
| trepidation | fear; worry; nervous apprehension |
| zenith | a highest point or acme; point of culmination |
| reticence | restraint, shyness, quietness |
| respite | time of relief from activity; rest; pause |
| parsimony | extreme stinginess; thrift; penny pinching |
| nostalgia | a sentimental longing for a certain time in the past |
| predecessor | person who came before; forerunner; ancestor |