- Adventitious: Associated by chance and not an integral part; Accidental
- Annalist: A historian who writes annals
- Badinage: Frivolous banter or light teasing
- Cabal: A plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act
- Corpulent: Excessively fat
- Craven: Coward or extremely fearful
- Dilettante: An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
- Disparage: To express a negative opinion
- Dolorous: Showing sorrow or weeping or to be tearful
- Effete: Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
- Enfeeble: Make weak
- Extant: Still in existence or not extinct or destroyed
- Flagrant: Something that is conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- Flippant: In a manner that lacks seriousness
- Imbrue: Drench or permeate; impregnate
- Inchoate: Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
- Ingenuous: Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- Innocuous: Harmless or not injurious to mental or physical health
- Insipid: Lacking taste or significance or dull and uninteresting
- Intrepid: Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Inveigle: To influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing or flattering
- Jaunty: Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
- Jejune: Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- Machinations: A crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- Moniker: A nickname
- Orotund: Ostentatiously lofty in style
- Perfidy: Betrayal of a trust
- Pernicious: Extremely harmful
- Perspicacious: Acutely insightful and wise or Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
- Protuberate: Cause to bulge out or project or Form a rounded prominence
- Purge: The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge or An act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- Querulous: Habitually complaining
- Quotidian: Found in the ordinary course of events
- Rapine: The act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Recriminate: To engage in mutual accusations or to return an accusation
- Revenant: A person who has returned after a lengthy absence or who has returned from the dead