| Nonchalant | Feeling or appearing calm and relaxed, no anxiety, interest or enthusiasm |
| Pensive | Engaged in or involved in deep or serious thought |
| Portend | Be a sign that something is going to happen (especially calamitous) |
| Rudimentary | Basic, initial (opposite: advanced) |
| Salutary | Producing good effects, beneficiary |
| Sever | Put an end to; cutting or slicing suddenly |
| Slight | Insult by treating or speaking of them without respect |
| Somnolent | Drowsy, sleepy |
| Stoic | A person who can endure pain without showing their feelings or complaining |
| Supersede | take the place of, supplant |
| Tout | praise, attempt to sell directly or persisting approach(black market) |
| Wane | Decrease in vigor(physical strength) or extent, become weaker |
| Boisterous | Noisy, energetic and cheerful |
| Chivalrous | Courteous and gallant, especially towards women |
| Churlish | Rude in a mean-spirited or surly way |
| Clandestine | Kept secretly especially because illicit |
| Complacent | Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction for oneself or one's achievements |
| Smug | Having or showing excessive pride in one's achievement |
| Cumbersome | large and heavy, not able to carry; slow and complicated, inefficient |
| Debilitating | make someone weak or infirm |
| Droll | Humorous, not serious, unusual |
| Fractious | Irritable and quarrelsome, uncontrollable |
| Limpid | Clear and transparent |
| Mawkish | Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way |
| Obeisance | Deferential respect |
| Ostentatious | Characterized by pretentious and showy display |
| Perilous | Full of danger or risk |
| Pervasive | Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people |
| Preclude | Prevent from happening, make impossible |
| Rapacious | Aggressively greedy and grabby |
