- abase: to lower in rank or prestige
- altruism: selflessness
- ambiguous: open to more than one interpretation
- amiable: friendly
- augment: make greater; supplement
- banal: drearily commonplace
- belligerent: hostile or aggressive
- callous: unfeeling
- castigate: to scold
- demure: modest and reserved
- deride: to mock contemptuously
- duplicitous: deliberately deceptive
- ebullience: intense enthusiasm
- effrontery: presumptuousness
- eminent: distinguished, prominent
- exuberant: full of enthusiasm
- flag: to decline in strength
- grandiose: grand
- inundate: to overwhelm, swamp
- invocation: to call upon a higher power for support or inspiration
- magnanimous: noble
- mercenary: motivated solely by a desire for money
- opulent: displaying great wealth
- placid: calm
- potentate: monarch
- quell: to suppress
- raze: to demolish
- redundant: needlessly repetitive
- remiss: negligent
- scrupulous: principled
- sophistry: a plausible but false argument
- squelch: to squash
- substantiate: to support with proof or evidence
- temperate: moderate
- veracity: truthfulness