- Abridge: to make shorter
- Abscond: to run off and hide
- Access: (n) approach or admittance to places, persons, things; an increase; (v) to get at, obtain
- Accomplice: a person who takes part in a crime
- Adherent: (n) a follower, supporter; (adj) attached, sticking to
- Adjourn: to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
- Admonish: to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
- Alien: (n) a citizen of another country;(adj) foreign, strange
- Altercation: an angry argument
- Anarchy: a lack of government and law; confusion
- Annihilate: to destroy completely
- Arbitrary: unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness
- Arduous: hard to do, requiring much effort
- Atone: To make up for
- Auspicious: favorable, fortunate
- Biased: favoring one side unduly; prejudiced
- Bondage: Slavery; any state of being bound or held down
- Brazen: shameless, impudent; made of brass
- Breach: (n)an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation of infraction;(v) to create an opening
- Brigand: a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- Catalyst: a substance that causes or hastens a chemical reaction; any ag
- Cherubic: resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
- Circumspect: careful, cautious
- Comely: having a pleasing appearance
- Commandeer: to seize for military or official use
- Compensate: to make up for; to repay for services
- Condone: to pardon or overlook
- Credible: Believable
- Cumbersome: clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
- Daunt: to overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage
- Deadlock: (n) a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions;(v) to bring such a stand still
- Debris: scattered fragments, wreckage
- Defray: To pay for
- Diffuse: (v) to spread or scatter freely or widely;(adj) long-winded, unfocused
- Dilemma: a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
- Diligent: Hardworking, industrious, not lazy
- Disentangle: to free of tangles or complications
- Dissent: (v) to disagree; (n) disagreement
- Dissolute: loose in one's morals or behavior
- Doleful: Sad; dreary
- Efface: to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
- Eminent: famous, outstanding, distinguished, projecting
- Erratic: not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable
- Exodus: a large-scale departure or flight
- Exorcise: to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive
- Expulsion: the process of driving or forcing out
- Fabricate: to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
- Facilitate: to make easier; to assist
- Fated: determined in advance by destiny or fortune
- Feint: (n) a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense;(v) to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of
- Fodder: food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose
- Fortify: to strengthen; build up
- Ghastly: Frightful, horrible; deathly pale
- Hamper: To hold back
- Hew: To shape or cut down with an ax; to hold to
- Hoodwink: to mislead by trick, deceive
- Illegible: difficult or impossible to read
- Impoverished: Poor, in a state of poverty; depleted
- Inanimate: not having life; without energy or spirit
- Incessant: Never stopping, going an all the time
- Incinerate: to burn to ashes
- Incorrigible: not able to be corrected; beyond control
- Intrepid: very brave, fearless, unshakable
- Intricate: Complicated; difficult to understand
- Irate: angry
- Jeer: (v) to make fun of rudely or unkindly;(n) a rude remark of derision
- Larceny: theft
- Latent: hidden, present but not realized
- Lucid: Easy to understand, clear; rational, sane
- Lucrative: bringing in money; profitable
- Marauder: a raider, plunderer
- Mediocre: average, ordinary, undistinguished
- Militant: (adj) given to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause; (n) an activist
- Morose: having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable
- Muddle: (v) to make a mess of, to get by; (n) a hopeless mess
- Obesity: excessive fatness
- Opaque: not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid
- Opinionated: stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
- Paramount: chief in importance, above all others
- Pauper: an extremely poor person
- Perennial: (adj) lasting for a long time, persistent;(n) a plant that lives for many years
- Pilfer: to steal in small quantities
- Pliant: bending readily; easily influenced
- Pompous: overly self-important in speech or manner; excessively stately or ceremonious
- Posthumous: Occurring or published after death
- Prattle: (v) to talk in an aimless, foolish, or simple way; to babble; (n) baby talk, babble
- Precipice: a very steep cliff, the brink or edge of disaster
- Predispose: to incline to beforehand
- Prim: Overly neat, precise, proper, or formal; prudish
- Proliferate: to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly
- Rebut: to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts an assertion; to refute
- Rectify: to make right, correct
- Relinquish: to let go, give up
- Reprieve: (n) a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement
- Reprimand: (v) to scold; find fault with; (n) a rebuke
- Revile: to attack with words, call bad names
- Rift: a split, break, breach
- Salvage: (v) to save from fire or shipwreck;(n) property thus saved
- Sardonic: Grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic
- Semblance: a likeness, an outward appearance, an apparition
- Servitude: slavery, forced labor
- Slapdash: careless and hasty
- Spasmodic: sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
- Spurious: not genuine, not true not valid
- Stagnant: not running or flowing; foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull
- Subjugate: to conquer by force, bring under complete control
- Succumb: to give way to superior force, yield
- Sully: to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch
- Superfluous: Exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess
- Supplant: To take the place of, supersede
- Surmount: to overcome, rise above
- Tantalize: to tease, torment by teasing
- Taunt: To jeer at, mock; an insulting or mocking remark
- Tenacious: Holding fast; holding together firmly; persistent
- Terminate: to bring to an end
- Terse: brief and to the point
- Trite: commonplace; overused, stale
- Unbridled: uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
- Unflinching: firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
- Usurp: to seize and hold a position by force