- adept: thoroughly skilled; an expert
- aspire: to have ambitious hopes or plans
- bleak: bare, dreary, dismal
- chide: to blame; scold
- despicable: worthy of scorn, contemptible
- diminutive: small, smaller than most others
- emancipate: to free from slavery
- erroneous: incorrect, containing mistakes
- exploit: to make use of; a feat or deed
- extemporaneous: maade or delivered on the spur of the moment
- impair: to make imperfect, damage, harm
- invincible: not able to be defeated, unbeatable
- languid: drooping; without energy
- mire: mud; wet, swampy ground; to get stuck
- obtrusive: forward; undesirably prominent
- preamble: an introduction to a speech or piece of writing
- render: to cause to become; to perform
- rugged: rough, irregular; severe, stern
- skeptical: inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true
- slipshod: untidy in dress, careless, sloppy