- altruistic: to be selfless
- Detente: an easing of tensions between the superpowers
- edict: a puublic or or command by some authority
- frivolity: silly behavior
- garbled: distort
- indiscernible: not able to figure out
- indolent: lazy
- insidious: sly,crafty,tricky
- reds: a nickname given to communist by americans during the red scare and the cold war
- ubiquitous: everywhere