- abjectly: miserable
- asunder: into separate parts/pieces
- burgeoned: to grow/flourish
- callow: frightened and weak willed [immature]
- effusive: outpouring of emotion
- enumerated: to list
- evocation: to summon or call forth
- exultant: rejoicing greatly
- genial: friendly
- harbinger: foreshadower
- imminence: about to occur
- imploringly: to ask
- inculcate: to teach by repetition
- inexorably: relentlessly
- intrinsically: inner essential nature
- lavish: extravagant
- liturgical: perform public worship
- magnanimity: generous
- malignant: showing malevolence
- mirth: happiness
- moribund: at the point of death
- obstinately: stubbornly
- postulated: assume without proof [hypothesis]
- precipice: the edge of a cliff
- reciprocate: to give in return
- ruminating: to consider [think about]
- satiety [satiate]: to be very satisfied
- suffuse: to spread
- superfluous: extra [unnecessary]
- truculently: savagely [fiercely]
- usurp: to seize [take over]
- veneer: a thin layer
- venerable: commanding respect [due to position]
- vivacious: animated, lively
BNW vocab