- amenity: something that creates comfort or value
- averse: having a feeling of opposition or distaste
- complacent: seeing no need to change; self-satisfied
- decompose: to decay or break down; rot
- defray: to pay for, supply the money
- emanate: to come out from a source, a beginning
- envisage: to picture in one's mind; imagine
- facetious: playfully or inappropriately humorous
- fallacy: a false or mistaken idea
- furor: an uproar, a state of great anger
- idyll: an episode that is calm and carefree, idyllic
- paucity: scarcity; smallness in number
- porous: full of tiny holes or spaces
- supersede: to replace; to cause to be set aside
- tangible: real; able to be touched