- Abdicate: give up, resign, as to abdicate a throne
- Aberration: a departure from what is normal or typical
- Abhor: to dislike intensely, loathe, despise
- Acrid: unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor
- Acrimonious: full of spite, bitter, nasty
- Acuity: keenness of perception
- Acumen: mental sharpness
- Acute: a sharp angle, very keen
- Affluent: to flow in abundance, wealthy
- Amiable: friendly, affable
- Amicable: Pleasant, friendly
- Amity: peaceful, friendly relations
- Antipathy: feeling against someone or something, dislike
- Benediction: to say or speak well of , hence a blessing
- Benefactor: one who has given help, especially financial
- Benevolent: an inclination to do good, kindliness
- Benign: good natured, kindly, favorable, not malignant
- Complacent: to be so calm as to be self-satisfied, smug
- Confluence: to flow together, convergence
- Diffident: lack of faith in oneself, lack of confidence
- Egregious: out of the group, outstandingly bad
- Elucidate: to make clear, clarify
- Empathy: feeling the same thing as someone else
- Exacerbate: to sharpen or aggravate a conflict, inflame
- Fidelity: loyalty, faithfulness
- Gregarious: enjoying the company of groups, affable
- Implacable: incapable of being calmed, relentless
- Infidelity: unfaithfulness
- Lucid: clear, readily understood
- MIsanthrope: a person who hates or distrusts mankind
- Malediction: to say bad things, a curse
- Malefactor: an evildoer or criminal
- Malevolent: to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
- Malignant: having an evil influence, very harmful
- Miscreant: one who behaves criminally, an evildoer, a malefactor
- Misnomer: wrong name
- Pellucid: very clear, transparent
- Perfidious: treacherous, untrustworthy
- Placate: to calm the anger of
- Segregate: separating into different groups
- Supercilious: thinking you are abov e others, arrogant, haughty
- Superfluous: to flow above, hence exceeding what is necessary
- Supersede: replace, take the place of
- Translucent: permitting the passage of light
- Untenable: that which cannot be defended