- congenial: getting along will with others
- decipher: to decode
- dissect: to cut into in order to study
- enigma: anthing that is puzzling, mysterious
- ineffectual: not bringing about the desired results, futile
- infallible: never wrong
- irrepressible: incapable of being controlled or held back
- luminous: giving off light
- millennium: a period of one thousand years
- mire: an area of wet, swampy ground
- pestilence: a rapidly speading and usually fatal disease
- stagnate: not moving or changing
- sublime: great or noble in expression
- vie: to compete for as in a contest
- voluminous: having great bulk or volume; ample