- alacrity: lively willingness, briskness
- calumny: slander, false and malicious statements
- cavil: to quible, find fault frivolously
- chagrin: shame, vexation, humiliation
- coincide: to match exactly, occupy the same time or place
- collaborate: to work together, cooperate
- condone: to excuse by seeming to overlook, treat as if trivial
- consternation: amazement and terror, dismay
- construe: to interpret, explain
- contemplate: meditate upon, gaze at, too intend or plan
- deter: to restrain, through fear or doubt, hinder or discourage
- dilemma: a predicament, agonizing choice
- disparage: to belittle, speak slightingly of
- emanate: to floww or issue forth
- enigma: a puzzle, mystery, perplexing situation
- erudition: learning, scholarly knowledge
- exmplify: to serve as an example of
- fecundity: fruitfulness, productiveness
- immolation: (act of) sacrificing or being sacrificed
- innovation: new method or custom, major change