- Acme: The highest point, as of perfection
- Artifice: Cleverness or skill
- Asseveration: A declaration that is serious; affirmation
- Consummation: The act of completing; fulfillment; an ultimate goal or end
- Cursory: Performed with haste and scant attention to detail
- Emulation: effort or ambition to better or equal another; imitation of another
- Gaunt: Thin and bony; emaciated and haggard, bleak and desolate
- Gesticulation: The act of gesturing
- Gibe: A derisive remark
- Indefatigable: Incapable of being fatigued
- Irksome: Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation
- Noisome: Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul, dangerous
- Obstinate: Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion or course of action
- Paroxysm: A sudden outburst of emotion or action; a spasm or fit; convulsion
- Propagate: To cause an organism to multiply or breed; transmit characteristics
- Sedulous: Persevering and constant in effort or application
- Shade: A disembodied spirit; a ghost
- Sophism: A plausible but fallacious argument
- Stupendous: Of outstanding force, volume, degree, or excellence
- Undulation: A wavelike form, outline, appearance, or movement