- adroit: skillful, clever
- affinity: attraction kinship
- despot: a ruler with absolute power, a tyrant
- effigy: image, likeness
- facile: easily done, moving easily or quickly
- feline: catlike, sly, sealthy
- hybrid: a cross between two varieties
- illusion: something not what it appears to be
- mediocre: average, commonplace
- opulence: wealth, abundance
- precision: exactness, accuracy
- prodigious: enormous, marvelous, sueprhuman
- prosaic: dull, monotounous, uninteresting
- proximity: nearness
- punitive: intended to punish, bringing punishmnent
- reminiscence: a calling to mind, recollection
- reprisal: act of retaliation, especially in war
- spoontaneous: arising narturally from within, bubbling up
- subtle: delicate, artful, requiring acuteness
- transient: fleeting, short-lived