- Adept: thoroughly skilled; an expert
- Aspire: to have ambitious hopes or plans, strive toward a Higher goal
- Bleak: bare, dreary, dismal
- Chide: to blame; scold
- Despicable: worthy of scorn, contemptible
- Diminutive: small, smaller than most others of the same type
- Emancipate: to free from slavery, to release or liberate
- Erroneous: incorrect, containing mistakes
- Exploit: to make use of, develop; to make improper use of for personal profit
- Extemporaneous: made or delivered on the spur of the moment
- Impair: to make imperfect, damage, harm
- Invincible: not able to be defeated, unbeatable
- Languid: drooping; without energy, sluggish
- Mire: mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation
- Obtrusive: forward; undesirably prominent; thrust out
- Preamble: an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
- Render: to cause to become; to perform; to deliver officially
- Rugged: rough; irregular; severe, stern
- Skeptical: inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true
- Slipshod: untidy in dress, personal habits; careless, sloppy
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