| affinity | attraction kinship |
| despot | a ruler with absolute power, a tyrant |
| effigy | image, likeness |
| hybrid | a cross between two varieties |
| illusion | something not what it appears to be |
| opulence | wealth, abundance |
| precision | exactness, accuracy |
| proximity | nearness |
| reminiscence | a calling to mind, recollection |
| reprisal | act of retaliation, especially in war |
| adroit | skillful, clever |
| facile | easily done, moving easily or quickly |
| feline | catlike, sly, sealthy |
| mediocre | average, commonplace |
| prodigious | enormous, marvelous, sueprhuman |
| prosaic | dull, monotounous, uninteresting |
| punitive | intended to punish, bringing punishmnent |
| spoontaneous | arising narturally from within, bubbling up |
| subtle | delicate, artful, requiring acuteness |
| transient | fleeting, short-lived |