- acuity: acuteness of perception; keeness
- auspices: protection or support; patronage
- auspicious: attended by favorable circumstances
- beseech: to address an earnest or urgent request to
- blandishment: the act of coaxing by flattery
- cajole: to coax gently and persistently
- circumspect: heedful of circumstances
- consummate: supremely accomplished or skilled
- cunning: skill or adeptness in performance
- deft: skillful; adroit
- despicable: deserving of scorn or contempt
- elicit: to bring out; evoke
- endowment: a natural gift or quality
- enjoin: to direct with authority and emphasis
- exigent: requiring immediate attention or remedy
- facile: done or achieved with little effort; easy
- imperious: arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- incompetent: not capable; not well qualified
- inept: awkward or clumsy
- injunction: a command, directive, or order
- introspective: self-examining
- mendicant: a beggar
- perspicuity: quality of being clearly expressed
- proficient: performing a skill with facility
- propensity: an innate inclination; tendency
- prospective: likely to become or be
- query: a question; inquiry
- specious: having the ring ot truth but actually false
- specter: a phantom; apparition
- spectrum: a broad range of related qualities or ideas