- apocalypse: a prophetic revelation especially one concerning the end of the world
- appropriate: to tale without permission; to set aside for a particular use
- autonomous: acting independently
- bereaved: deprived or left desolate especially through death
- beset: to harass; to surround
- blasphemy: insult to something held sacred; profanity; irreverence
- blatant: unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
- blight: disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys
- decadent: decaying or decayed especially in terms of morals
- decimate: to kill or destroy a large part of
- effusion: pouring forth
- egalitarian: believing in the social and economic quality of all people
- egocentric: selfish; believing that one is the center of everything
- encroach: to make gradual or stealthy in roads into; trepass
- endemic: native; restricted to a particualr region or era; indigenous
- extemporaneous: improvised; done without preparation
- flaunt: to show off; to display ostentatiously
- frentic: frantic; frentized
- furtive: secretive; sly
- futile: useless; hopeless