- adage: old saying, proverb
- affectation: pretension, shame, pose
- aperture: opening
- aqueous: watery, aquatic, liquid
- cache: hiding place for treasures, stash
- caprice: sudden, unpredictable change, impules, whim
- circumscribe: to encircle with a line, limit, outline, bound
- contentious: eager to quarrel
- dearth: scarcity, lack
- delude: to deceive
- deluge: flood
- discursive: covering a wide area or digresing from a topic
- disseminate: to scatter or spread widely
- doff: to remove or take off
- erudite: knowledgeable and learned
- expunge: to delete or omit completely
- gregarious: fond of company
- magnanimous: noble, forgiving, patient, tolerant, unresentful
- misbegotten: poorly conceived, poorly planned, based on false assumptions or reasoning
- olfactory: relating to sense of smell
- quell: overpower, quench
- raze: destroy
- repartee: witty conversation, retort
- repudiate: to reject what one was once associated with
- rout: conquer, defeat, and chase off
- schism: division, break, conflict, clash
- torrid: hot, parched, sizzling
- wantonly: without a reason