| Term | Definition |
| Aquiesce | to give in |
| Affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship |
| Blasphemous | irreverent, profane |
| Buttress | a support, or prop |
| Circumspect | careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent |
| Corroboration | confirmation |
| Deplete | to use up graduallly, to lessen in amount or value |
| Despotic | ruling oppressively and abolutely; tyrannical |
| Empirical | based on observation or experiment and not on theory |
| Emaciated | very thin, wasting away |
| Fallow | inactive, plowed; not sowed |
| Extraneous | not essential or vital |
| Homogeneous | of the same kind |
| Hyperbole | obvious exaggeration |
| Incontrovertible | indisputable |
| Irascible | irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross |
| Laconic | using a minimum of words, concise to the point of seeming rude |
| Magnanimity | having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit |
| Obsequious | overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile |
| Proliferation | an increase in number, multiplication |
| Scrupulous | very principled, very careful and conscientious |
| Sublime | exalted, noble, uplifting |
| Surreptitious | secret, clandestine, stealthy |
| Veracity | devotion to the truth |
| Zeal | enthusiasm, fervoor |
