- antiphonal: music sung in alternate parts
- assimilate: conform or become apart of
- cessation: a break or hole in something
- corpulent: excessively fat
- crepitation: to make a crackling or grating sound
- derisive: offensive, rude
- ensconce: to settle in comfortably
- multitudinous: numerous in amount
- myopia: the inability to see correctly
- parry: to avoid a question
- phosphorescence: the continued emission of light without accompanying heat after exposure to and removal of a source of stimulating radiation
- pinnacle: top of mountain of hill
- rouse: excited or to shake
- succulent: juicy
- talisman: a magical item
- Theological: obvious or the most appropriate
- torrid: in the mood, sexual
- ululation: a howl or scream