- acquiesced: accepted; complied with
- acrimoniously: ill-naturedly
- altruism: the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- amalgamated: caused to combine or unite
- ambiguity: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
- amicably: nicely or gently
- asunder: into parts or pieces
- conjecture: to guess, to deduce, infer
- contrive: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort
- discernment: the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- effaced: erased
- ephemeral: enduring a very short time
- epicurean: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
- espouse: take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- extraneous: not essential
- fortuitous: occurring by happy chance
- incipient: beginning to exist
- incumbent: imposed as a duty; obligatory
- indolent: lazy
- innocuous: harmless
- malleable: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
- obsequious: attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
- ostensibly: from appearances alone
- providential: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate
- subversive: in opposition to a civil authority or government
- superfluous: more than is needed, desired, or required
- surmise: infer from incomplete evidence
- vacillation: changing location by moving back and forth
- vacuous: empty
- vicarious: felt or experienced second-hand