- apprehension: fearful expectation or anticipation
- arid: lacking vitality or spirit
- brevity: conciseness; shortness of duration
- detachment: avoiding emotional involvement
- heathen: a person who does not acknowledge your God
- hypocrite: one who is insincere or deceitful; one who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
- improbable: not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred
- irrelevant: having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
- mollified: soothed; appeased; assuaged
- pauper: a person who is very poor
- predicament: difficult situation; tricky or dangerous situation; dilemma
- pursuits: activities; hobbies
- ruefully: regretfully; sorrowfully
- stealthy: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
- subsequent: following in time or order; later
- subtlety: the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
- sustain: to keep in existence; maintain; prolong
- vehement: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
- volition: act of using one's will; act of making a conscious choice