- Adore - love and respect (someone) deeply 
- Altruistic - showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others 
- Ambiguity - uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language 
- Ambivalent - having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone 
- Anathema - something or someone that one vehemently dislikes 
- Anticlimactic - of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style 
- Ardent - enthusiastic or passionate 
- Attraversiamo - "Let's cross over--let go of the past and what was, what could have been, and instead think of now, what is and what will be." 
- Audacious - showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks 
- Besotted - strongly infatuated 
- Bureaucratic - overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense 
- Burgeoning - beginning to grow or increase rapidly; flourish 
- Cerebral - betraying or characterized by the use of the intellect rather than intuition or instinct 
- Chronic - persisting for a long time or constantly recurring 
- Contretemps - an unexpected and unfortunate occurrence 
- Debasing - degrading 
- Debauchery - excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures 
- Deprecation - an expression of disapproval 
- Destitute - without the basic necessities of life 
- Diaspora - the dispersion of any people from their original homeland 
- Diurnal - active in the daytime 
- Effeminate - (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly 
- Emaciated abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food 
- Emanate - issue or spread out from (a source) 
- Encumbrance - a burden or impediment 
- Flay - peel a skin off (a corpse or a carcass) 
- Furtive - attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble 
- Inane - silly; stupid 
- Inculcate - instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction 
- Innate - inborn; natural 
- Insalubrious - unhealthy 
- Interstice - an intervening space, especially a very small one 
- Longevity - long life 
- Ludicrous - so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing 
- Misogynist - a woman hater 
- Notwithstanding - in spite of 
- Open-ended - without fixed limits or restrictions 
- Parochialism - a limited or narrow outlook 
- Paroxysm - a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity 
- Partisan - a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person 
- Perennial - lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring 
- Posthumous - occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator 
- Prerogative - a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class 
- Requiem - an act or token of remembrance 
- Repugnant - extremely distasteful; incompatible with 
- Resilient - able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions 
- Resolute - admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering 
- Resplendent - attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous 
- Resuscitate - make (something such as an idea or enterprise) active or vigorous again 
- Selaphobia - fear of light flashes 
- Travesty - a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something 
- Ubiquitous - present, appearing, or found everywhere 
- Ultimatum - a final demand or statement of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations 
- Unexpurgated - not having material deleted 
- Verbatim - in exactly the same words as were used originally 
- Verbose - containing more words than necessary 
- Wistful - having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing 
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