- bravado: n boasting
- corpulent: adj plump; rotund
- crestfallen: adj dejected ; disconsolate
- demure: adj. modest reserved reticient
- ebullient: adj enthusiastic; exuberant
- effulgence: n brilliance; radiance
- impervious: adj inflexible unyeilding resistant
- inherent: adj natural inborn intrinsic
- ravenous: adj very hungry, famished, voracious
- scour: v to hunt; search
- specious: adj inaccurate fallacious
- truculent: adj aggressive quarrelsome