- abjure: renounce
- adherent: supporter
- analgesic: painkiller
- caustic: burning
- chiromancy: palm reading
- circumloucution: talking in circles
- confluence: a flowing together
- depose: topple from power
- diaphanous: semitransparent
- discursive: rambling
- egomania: self-obsessed
- egregious: blatant
- gregarious: sociable
- ichthyologist: fish scientist
- ingenous: innocent and naive
- intractable: stubborn
- intransigent: not compromising
- mollify: make soft
- oligarchy: government by a few
- perfidious: treacherous
- perspicuous: brilliantly clear
- polyglot: multi-linuist
- sinecure: an easy lucrative job
- soliloquy: speech to oneself
- somniferous: bringing sleep