| word | definition | synonyms |
| proliferous | Reproducing freely by means of buds and side branches | offspring |
| embezzler | to appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | steal |
| divulge | to make public | reveal |
| respire | to inhale and exhale air successively | breath |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation | butt in |
| repossessed | to regain possession of | get back, reclaim |
| remedy | a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease | cure, medicine |
| console | a combination of readouts or displays and an input device (as a keyboard or switches) by which an operator can monitor and interact with a system (as a computer) | **calm, relieve, tranquilize |
| communists | one held to engage in left-wing, subversive, or revolutionary activities | ----- |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion | daydream, dream, fantasy |
| indecency | the quality or state of being indecent | ----- |
| idiosyncrasy | an individualizing characteristic or quality | ----- |
| vulgarity | gross or common | offensive, repulsive |
| condemn | to pronounce guilty | doom |
| infer | to point out | conclude |
| whimsical | lightly fanciful | something tending to soothe |
| placebo | something tending to soothe | ----- |
| unpretentious | free from ostentation, elegance, or affectation | modest |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance | cease, discontinue, quit, stop |
| insidious | awaiting a chance to entrap | dangerous, cunning |
| philosophical | calm or unflinching in face of trouble, defeat, or loss | ----- |
| unencumbered | free of burden | ----- |
| inconspicuous | not readily noticeable | vague |
| ib initio | from the beginning | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
