- abscond: to run off and hide
- access: approach or admittance
- accomplice: a person who takes part in a crime
- anarchy: lack of government; confusion
- annihilate: to completely destroy
- arbitrary: based on ones will or whim
- arduous: hard to do
- atone: to make up for
- auspicious: lucky, favorable
- biased: prejudiced
- bondage: slavery
- brazen: shameless and bold
- catalyst: an agent that causes change
- credible: believable
- daunt: to intimidate
- defray: to pay for
- diligent: hardworking; not lazy
- disentangle: to free from tangles or complications
- doleful: sad; dreary
- exodus: large-scale departure
- facilitate: to make easier
- fated: destined; preordained
- ghastly: frightful; horrible
- hamper: to hold back
- hew: to cut down with an ax
- hoodwink: to trick
- impoverished: poor, in a state of poverty
- inanimate: nonliving; without energy
- incessant: never stopping; continuous
- incinerate: to burn
- incorrigible: not able to be corrected
- intrepid: brave and fearless
- intricate: complicated; difficult to understand
- larceny: theft
- latent: not yet realized; under the surface
- lucid: easy to understand; clear
- militant: an activist that is given to fighting
- morose: gloomy, sullen; not sociable
- opaque: no letting in light
- paramount: chief in importance, above all others
- pliant: bending readily; easily influenced
- pompous: arrogant; overly self-important
- posthumous: happening or published after death
- prattle: to talk in an aimless manner; to babble
- precipice: a very steep cliff; the edge of disaster
- prim: overly neat, precise
- rebut: to offer arguments or evidence that contradicts
- rectify: to make right or correct
- reprieve: a temporary delay; postponement
- reprimand: to scold; a rebuke
- revile: to attack with words
- sardonic: grimly or scornfully mocking
- servitude: slavery or forced labor
- slapdash: careless and hasty
- stagnant: not running or flowing
- succumb: to give way to superior force; yield
- superfluous: exeeding what is sufficient, excess
- supplant: to take the place of
- taunt: to jeer or mock
- tenacious: holding fast; persistent