- cliche: (n. adj.) trite word or obvious remark
- colloquial: (adj.) of or pertaining to speech
- corrugated: (adj.)to bend into folds or furrows and ridges
- debilitate: (v.) to make weak or feeble
- depose: (v.) to testify under oath; to remove from a high position
- discourse: (n. or v.) communication of thought by words
- distend: (v.) to extend by stretching
- effervesce: (v.) to give off bubbles
- elicit: (v.) to draw out or provoke
- equitable: (adj.) just and impartial
- evanescent: (adj.) vanishing, fleeting, fading away
- fallow: (adj.) condition of being unseeded
- florid: (adj.) flowery or excessively ornate
- glacial: (adj.) happening very slowly
- iconoclastic: (adj.) characterized by an attack on established beliefs or institutions
- indolent: (adj.) averse to exertion, habitually inactive or idle
- jocular: (adj.) characterized by joking