- amorphous: shapeless
- anthropomorphic: man-shaped
- bellicose: warlike
- benediction: blessing
- bilateral: two-sided
- captious: fult-finding
- circumspect: cautious
- commensurate: of like measure
- equivocate: to hedge
- excoriate: verbally flog
- incredulous: not believing
- magnanimous: great-minded
- malediction: a curse
- malevolence: evil intent
- misanthropist: people-hater
- monomania: obsession with one thing
- neologism: new word
- neophyte: beginner
- omniscient: all-knowing
- preponderance: bulk
- prototype: first model
- specious: false
- superfluous: unnecessary
- unilateral: one-sided
- xenophobia: fear of foreigners