| Word | Type | Meaning |
|---|
| Assiduous | Adjective | Showing immense care and perseverance |
| Balk | Verb | To be hesitant in accepting an idea/opinion |
| Broach | Verb | Raise a subject/topic for discussion |
| Causality | Noun | The relationship between cause and effect |
| Drawl | Verb | Speak in a slow and long-drawn manner |
| Ennui | Noun | A feeling of dissatisfaction due to lack of activity |
| Exultant | Adjective | Extremely happy |
| Ignominy | Noun | Public shame/disgrace |
| Kafkaesque | Adjective | Pertaining to what’s nightmarish and oppressive |
| Languid | Adjective | Disinterest in physical exertion and activity |
| Moribund | Adjective | Near death |
| Ossify | Verb | Make rigid / turn into bone |
| Pellucid | Adjective | Translucently clear / Easily understood |
| Privy | Adjective | Sharing in the knowledge of |
| Promethean | Adjective | Highly distinguished and important in a field |
| Remonstrate | Verb | Make a forceful protest |
| Reprovingly | Adjective | Expressive of strong disapproval |
| Skive | Verb | Leave work early in avoidance |
| Stymie | Verb | Hinder |
| Superfluous | Adjective | Unnecessary |
| Tripartite | Adjective | Involving three parts |
| Upend | Verb | Turn something over upside-down |
| Weather | Verb | Withstand duress |
| Immanent | Adjective | Existing within |
| Moonstruck | Adjective | Unable to think or act normally (when in love) |
| Aphorism | Noun | A terse and pithy statement that conveys a general truth |
| Pithy | Adjective | That which has a lot of ‘pith’, or is highly meaningful and terse |
| Seedy | Adjective | Disreputable and corrupt / Shabby |
| Virulently | Adjective | Bitterly hostile and reproving |