Abhor
To regard with extreme repugnance or aversion.
Anguish
Severe upset or pain.
Apathetic
Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
Apex
The best, the top, the highest point.
Apprehensive
Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen.
Ascribe
To attribute to a specific cause, source or origin; to attribute responsibility for some result.
Assail
To attack violently.
Assimilate
To bring to conformity with something. To be absorbed.
Baffle
To confuse.
Barrage
Any overwhelming attack, as of words or blows or artillery.
Beguile
Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.
Bereaved
Descriptive of a person greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one.
Brawl
A nasty fight.
Capitulate
To surrender, to give in.
Catalyst
A person or thing that causes a change.
Chastise
Rebuke or reprimand severely.
Civility
Courtesy of politeness.
Cognizant
Aware, having knowledge of something.
Commend
To praise formally or officially.
Conscientious
1) Controlled according to your inner sense of what is right.
2) Painstaking; particular; scrupulous.
Contort
To distort by twisting in a violent manner.
Contrite
Having or showing sincere remorse or sorrow for one’s actions.
Contemplate
To think about something.
Corpulent
Very fat, obese.
Crucible
Any severe experience or trial.
Cryptic
Having a hidden or obscure meaning.
Cynical
Non-believing or even doubtful as to the veracity of others.
Derisive
Characterized by or expressing contempt.
Derogatory
Offensive, uncomplimentary.
Deter
To discourage, to keep someone from doing something.
Denigrate
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; to damage ones reputation.
Diatribe
A bitterly verbal attack.
Improvisation
The act of creating something from whatever materials are handy.
Inarticulate
Lacking the ability to express yourself, especially in clear and effective speech.
Incantation
Words uttered as a magic spell.
Incredulous
Showing or indicate unbelief.
Indifferent
Without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: having no bias, prejudice, or preference.
Indolent
Having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful.
Inimical
Harmful in tendency or effect.
Inquire
To seek information by asking questions.
Insidious
Working in a subtle but destructive way.
Interminable
Monotonously annoying, incapable of ending.
Intrinsic
When the quality or item belonging to something is there because it is the very nature of the thing.
Inure
To get used to something undesirable.
Juncture
A point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances.
Lament
The act of expressing grief or sorrow, mournful song for death.
Legacy
Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor.
Loathsome
Something so repulsive it causes feelings of loathing (hateful disgust); something that is disgusting; revolting; repulsive.
Lucid
1) Completely intelligible or comprehensible.
2) Characterized by clear perception or understanding.
3) Rational or sane.
Luxuriant
Richly abundant, very fruitful.
Malevolent
Evil, harmful.
Manifest
Clearly apparent to the sight or understanding.
Maternal
Having the qualities historically associated with a mother.
Memoir
A record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
Mortification
A feeling of humiliation or shame.
Motif
Central or recurring theme or distinctive idea in a literary work.
Myopic
Having to do with being nearsighted.
Myriad
Having innumerable possibilities.
Nocturnal
Happening at night.
Obtuse
Not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant.
Perilous
Involving serious risk.
Pervasive
Spreading throughout (as in a group of people or a place)
Vengeance
The act of inflicting injury, harm or humiliation on someone because they have hurt you.
Waif
A person, especially a child, who has no home or friends. A very thin, often small person, usually a young woman.
Winnow
To eliminate or to rid of undesirable parts.