- abet: encourage
- altruistic: unselfishly concerned
- bombastic: sounding
- cognizant: aware
- debacle: failure
- desultory: lacking in consistancy
- engender: to produce
- fortuitous: accidental
- garner: to get
- hapless: unlucky
- harbinger: forshadows a future event
- homily: a sermon
- impervious: not permitting
- itinerant: traveling from place to place
- jingoist: phanatic
- limpid: clear or transparent
- maudlin: tearful
- nadir: point
- officious: interferring
- perfidy: treachery
- phlegmatic: sluggish
- puerile: child
- quintessence: pure
- relegate: inferios position
- slovenly: unclean
- stentorian: loud in sound
- unconscionable: unthinkable
- vernal: pertaining to spring
- voracious: consuming large quantities of food
- wrangle: argue or dispute