- Aerie: nest of a bird of prey at a high altitude
- Agility: nimbleness
- Amicable: friendly
- Arboreal: living in trees; relating to or resembling trees
- Armiger: a squire carrying the armor of a knight; a nobleman who bears heraldic arms
- Baleful: deadly or sinister
- Bellwether: a leader
- Bevy: a group of girls or young women; a flock of quail
- Bibulous: inclined to drink; very absorbent
- Bogus: fake
- Bovine: sluggish, dull; like an ox, cow, or buffalo
- Brawny: muscular
- Browbeat: bullied, intimidated
- Buffoonery: tricks, pranks, rude joking
- Castigate: to punish or criticize severely
- Chaos: great confusion; disorder
- Clairvoyance: the power of knowing the future
- Clemency: show of forgiveness; mildness as in weather
- Comity: mutual respect and harmony
- Contrite: feeling sorrow for doing something wrong
- Cunning: clever, sly; cute (as in a cunning baby)
- Dearth: little or nothing of something
- Demise: death
- Deride: to make fun of
- Didactic: intended to teach (could be morally instructive)
- Diffident: shy
- Efface: to erase; to destroy; to go unnoticed
- Encumbered: loaded down with a heavy burden; blocked (obstructed by objects)
- Façade: front of a building; false appearance
- Foolhardy: reckless
- Grotto: a small cave or cavers; resembling a cave or cavern
- Guffaw: a loud burst of laughter (a belly laugh)
- Hapless: unlucky, unfortunate
- Husband: to use cautiously, frugally; a married man
- Impregnable: able to withstand attack
- Improbable: unlikely to occur
- Innocuous: not causing harm
- Insipid: not interesting
- Intrepid: fearless
- Irascible: hot-tempered
- Joey: a baby kangaroo
- Judicious: wise
- Lachrymose: tearful
- Lamentable: sad
- Loquacious: very talkative
- Lustrous: bright, shining, brilliant
- Magnanimous: noble, generous in spirit; understanding
- Meander: to wind, proceed aimlessly; a curve in a stream
- Menagerie: a group of animals held in captivity
- Nadir: the lowest point
- Nettled: annoyed, irritated
- Numismatist: coin collector
- Obnoxious: very unpleasant or annoying
- Obsolete: no longer used; replaced by something better
- Overzealous: extremely enthusiastic
- Pariah: an outcast
- Parsimonious: extremely careful not to spend too much money
- Peremptory: haughty, bossy; putting an end to all debate
- Piety: devotion to God and obedience to His teachings
- Plastic: able to be shaped or molded; easily influenced; synthetic material
- Precipitous: extremely steep
- Pretentious: being showy or affected
- Prodigious: enormous
- Pugnacious: likes to fight
- Quell: to stop; to quiet or pacify
- Raconteur: storyteller
- Redolent: having a pleasant odor; brings to mind
- Refurbished: restored like new
- Rent: tore violently; payment
- Resilience: an ability to bounce back from misfortune
- Restitution: that which is offered or returned for something lost, injured, or destroyed
- Salubrious: healthy
- Saturated: thoroughly wet, drenched
- Seedy: tired or sick; having seeds, like seeds; shabby
- Seethed: got extremely upset; foamed as if boiling
- Sentinel: a guard
- Somnambulist: sleepwalker
- Synchronous: happening at the same time
- Taboret: a stool without arms; a low stand or cabinet; an embroidery frame
- Taciturn: silent
- Tarry: to delay, to put off; tar-like characteristics
- Troglodyte: caveman
- Truncheon: a club carried by police
- Tyro: beginner; amateur
- Unguent: an ointment to soothe
- Urbane: polite in an elegant manner
- Urchin: mischievous youngster; sea urchin
- Vacuous: lacking intelligence; empty
- Winsome: charming; pleasing
- Wry: twisted