- amenable: agreeable, willing to act
- cajole: to persuade by flattery or promise
- dichotomy: division into two parts
- eminent: greatest or utmost
- endeavor: earnest attempt or effort
- firmament: the vault or expanse of the sky or heavens
- forlorn: miserable, as in condition or apperance
- fraught: attended or filled with a specified element
- grimace: contorted facial expression
- inhibition: something that restrains or surpresses
- innumerable: countless, numerous
- perplex: to confuse or make complicated
- recrimination: a countercharge
- sardonic: scornfully or cynically mocking
- taciturn: habitually untalkative
- verdant: lush, green with vegitation