Abdicate
To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner.
Agronomist
One who specializes in the science of soil management and the production of field crops (agronomy).
Arcana
A secret; a mystery.
Archaic
Marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated.
Benign
Unlikely to cause harm; harmless.
Castrate
To remove the testes or ovaries of something or someone; to deprive of strength, power, or efficiency.
Copulation
Sexual intercourse.
Crepitate
To make a crackling sound.
Damask
A reversible fabric of linen, silk, cotton, or wool, woven with patterns.
Decorous
Characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
Dulcet
Pleasant to the ear; melodious.
Dun
Dull, grayish brown.
Evince
To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove.
Eviscerate
To remove the entrails from something or someone; to disembowel.
Exuberance
The state of being exuberant; effusively and almost uninhibitedly enthusiastic.
Ferment
Agitation; unrest; commotion; tumult.
Gestalt
A perceptual pattern or a structure possessing qualities as a whole that cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts.
Hominid
Any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae.
Imperious
Domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing.
Laconic
Using few words; concise.
Languor
Lack of energy or vitality; sluggishness.
Leprotic
Having characteristics of leprosy.
Mage
A magician.
Magnanimous
Generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness.
Onus
A difficult or disagreeable obligation.
Orgy
Wild or drunken festivity or revelry, especially involving sex with multiple participants.
Pedant
A person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning.
Pinion
To hold (something) down.
Puerile
Of or relating to a child or to childhood.
Pullulating
To breed, to exist abundantly, to send forth sprouts or buds.
Puritanical
Very strict in moral or religious matter, often excessively so; rigidly austere.
Rancor
Bitter resentment or ill will; hatred; malice.
Rapt
Deeply engrossed or absorbed.
Sardonic
Deeply engrossed or absorbed.
Sentient
Characterized by sensation and consciousness.
Singleton
A child or animal that is the only one born at one birth.
Solipsism
The theory that only the self exists.
Sophisticate
A sophisticated person.
Tumult
Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar.
Vapid
Without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious.
Vulcanism
A variant on volcanism, the processes collectively that result in the formation of volcanoes and their products.
