1. Abdicate: To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
2. Acumen: Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
3. Arboreal: Relating to or resembling a tree
4. Aversion: A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance
5. Banal: Drearily commonplace and often predictable; trite
6. Bombastic: Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
7. Buttress: A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
8. Clarify: To make clear or easier to understand; elucidate
9. Covet: To feel immoderate desire for that which is another's.
10. Despot: A ruler with absolute power.
11. Docile: Ready and willing to be taught; teachable.
12. Effervescent: The state of being stimulated, refreshed, or elated
13. Epitome: A representative or perfect example of a class or type
14. Exhilaration: The state of being stimulated, refreshed, or elated
15. Faade: The face of a building, especially the principal face.
16. Fetid: Having an offensive odor.
17. Gallant: Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing
18. Grimace: A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust.
19. Hamlet: A small village.
20. Hoax: An act intended to deceive or trick.
21. Illicit: Not sanctioned by custom or law; unlawful.
22. Iniquity: Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.
23. Juxtapose: To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
24. Linguistics: The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
25. Moribund: Approaching death; about to die.
26. Nomadic: A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.
27. Obsolescent: Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness; becoming obsolete.
28. Pacifist: The belief that disputes between nations should and can be settled peacefully.
29. Pernicious: Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly
30. Rancor: Bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will.
31. Risqu: Suggestive of or bordering on indelicacy or impropriety.
32. Scythe: An implement consisting of a long, curved single-edged blade with a long bent handle, used for mowing or reaping.
33. Taciturn: Habitually untalkative.
34. Trauma: A serious injury or shock to the body, as from violence or an accident.
35. Ulterior: Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive
36. Vermillion: A bright red mercuric sulfide used as a pigment.
37. Void: Containing no matter; empty.
38. Voluminous: Having great volume, fullness, size, or number
39. Whet: To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone.
40. Yiddish: The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian.