- ambivalent - having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
- renegade - a person who deserts a party or cause for another
- asinine - foolish, unintelligent, stupid
- connoisseur - a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgements in an art
- per se - by, of, for, in itself
- mutiny - revolt or rebellion
- enigma - puzzling or inexplicable occurence/situation
- bourgeois - member of the middle class; political, economic and social opinions determined by concern for property values and respectability
- tousled - disheveled, unkempt
- stark - sheer, utter, complete
- plausible - having an appearance of truth or reason, seemingly worthy of acceptance
- belligerent - warlike, aggressively hostile, given to waging war
- benevolent - characterized by expressing goodwill or kindly feelings
- fraught - to be filled with
- existential - pertaining/relating to one's existence
- morality - conformity to the rules of right conduct, moral quality
- pittance - a small amount, small share
- Godspeed - good fortune, success
- forsake - to abandon, leave entirely
- penny dreadful - 1900s magazines printed on pulp with rough edges, featuring comics usually; only costed a penny
- pulp fiction - fictional stories printed in pulp magazines, which where around from about 1886 to the 1950s, it was the successor of penny dreadfuls
- mellifluous - sweetly or smoothly flowing, sweet-sounding
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