- aspire: to strive for
- bias: prejudice
- havoc: ruin
- incisive: acute
- inveigh: attack verbally
- lethal: deadly
- mammoth: big
- nettle: irritate
- overt: open
- precipitate: hasten
- raze: destroy
- relegate: assign to an inferior position
- repulse: drive back
- scurry: run hastily
- sinecure: soft job
- singular: extraordinary
- stentorian: loud
- stereotype: unvarying pattern
- supine: lying on back
- valor: courage