- Inchocate: just beginning
- Indolence: laziness, inertia
- Innocuous: harmless, mild
- Invidious: offensive, unjust, unfair
- Licentious: immoral, lewd
- Maimed: disabled, mutilated, crippled
- Meretricious: false, flashy, specious
- Nadir: rock bottom, lowpoint
- Nexus: binding force, link
- Nonentity: nobody, person of no influence
- Obviate: prevented, made unnecessary
- Opulent: luxurious, sleek, affluent
- Paucity: insufficiency, lack, scarcity
- Petulant: bad-tempered, peevish, irritable
- Placid: still, calm, tranquil
- Profligate: wasteful, careless, extravagent
- Puissant: strong, mighty, potent
- Querulous: peevish, fretful, nagging
- Recondite: complicated, difficult to grasp
- Retinue: escort, attentive group