- compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy or sorrow for someone
- composite: made up of several elements
- conjecture: the formation of an opinion or theory
- cursory: quick, fleeting
- demise: death, downfall
- dispassionate: free from or unnaffected by passion; impartial; calm
- disposition: a prevailing tendency of one's spirits; physical inclination or tendency
- eventuality: a possible event, circumstance, or occurence
- extenuating: to make or try to make seem less serious, esp. by making excuses
- inherent: existing in someone or something as a permanent element
- obsession: the domination fo ones's thoughts by ideas, etc.
- pensive: dreamily or wistfully thought
- perpendicular: vertical, straight up and down, forming a 90 degree angle
- preamble: an introductory statement; preface
- preponderance: superior in weight, power, numbers, influence, etc.
- proclivity: natural or habitual inclination or tendency
- propensity: a natural inclination or tedency
- recourse: access of resort to a person for help or protection
- sedulous: diligent in character; persevering
- subterfuge: an artifice used to evade a rule, escape a consequence
- superstition: an irrational belief in the ominous significance of a particular thing