- afficionado: an enthusiastic fan
- appraisal: evaluation of worth
- appreciable: noticeable
- arbitrary: based on impulse rather then reason
- assert: to state firmly
- base: low or inferior in position or quality
- bravado: boastful bravery
- breadth: a wide range
- candid: frank; honest
- circumlocution: using indirect language
- cogent: logical and convincing
- coincidental: happening at the same time, by chance
- contrive: to cleverly plot
- copious: abundant
- criterion: a standard of judgment
- deliberation: careful thinking
- dexterity: cleverness
- discourse: a formal speech or writing
- embargo: an order preventing trade
- falter: to hesitate
- ferocity: fierceness
- flotilla: a small fleet of boats or ships
- flout: to disobey openly
- foolhardy: unwisely bold
- fortuitous: happening by lucky accident
- gargantuan: gigantic
- hacienda: a large estate or ranch
- haphazard: chosen randomly
- headstrong: willful and stubborn
- incisive: clear and sharp in analysis or expression
- incommunicado: without a means of communication
- innumerable: too many to count
- inordinate: exceeding reasonable limits
- junta: a group of military leaders
- legitimate: lawful
- literate: educated; knowledgeable
- mediocre: ordinary in quality
- meritorious: worthy of praise
- negligible: insignificant
- outspoken: very candid
- paucity: scarcity
- peccadillo: a small fault
- peon: an unskilled laborer
- pittance: an inadequate wage
- prattle: to talk foolishly
- premeditated: planned beforehand
- proliferate: to spread quickly
- prophetic: foreseeing the future
- raconteur: a skilled storyteller
- renegade: a rebel
- sophistry: cleverly misleading arguments
- spontaneity: the quality of following impulses
- truism: an overused saying
- undaunted: not discouraged
- unwittingly: unknowingly; without awareness
- utterance: something that is said
- validate: to confirm the truth of something
- vehement: forceful
- verbose: too wordy
- vibrant: vigorous, energetic