- abridge: to make shorter
- adherent: a follower, supporter, attached, or sticking to
- adjourn: to stop proceedings temporarily
- admonish: to caution or advise against something
- alien: a citizen of another country, foreign, strange
- altercation: an angry argument
- breach: an opening, gap, rupture, a violation or infraction
- brigand: a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
- cherubic: resembling an angel
- 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
- cumbersome: clunsy, hard to handle, slow-moving
- deadlock: a standstill
- debris: scattered fragments, wreckage
- diffuse: to spread or scatter freely or widely
- dilemma: a difficult or preplexing situation or problem
- dissent: to disagree, a disagreement
- dissolute: loose in one's morals or behavior
- efface: to wipe out
- eminent: famous, outstanding, distinguished
- erratic: not regular or consistent, different from what is ordinarily expected
- exorcise: to drive out by magic, to dispose of something troublesome
- expulsion: the process of driving or forcing out
- fabricate: to make, manufacture, to make up, invent
- feint: a deliberately deceptive movement, a pretense
- fodder: food for horses or cattle, raw material for a designated purpose
- fortify: to strengthen, build up
- illegible: difficult or impossible to read
- irate: angry
- jeer: to make fun of rudely or unkindly
- lucrative: bringing in money, profitable
- marauder: a raider, plunderer
- mediocre: average, ordinary, undistinguished
- muddle: to make a mess of
- obesity: excessive fatness
- opinionated: stubborn and often unreasonable, having a closed mind
- pauper: an extremely poor person
- perennial: lasting for a long time, persistent, a plant that lives many years
- pilfer: to steal in small quantities
- predispose: to incline to beforehand
- proliferate: to reproduct, increase, or spread rapidly
- relinquish: to let go, give up
- rift: a split, break, or breach
- salvage: to save from fire or shipwreck
- semblance: a likeness, an outward appearance, an apparition
- spasmodic: sudden and violent but brief, fitful
- spurious: not genuine, not true, not valid
- subjugate: to conquer by force, bring under complete control
- sully: to soil, stain, or tarnish
- surmount: to overcome, rise above
- tantalize: to tease, torment by teasing
- 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 or without right