| Baroque | Highly ornate and extravagant in style |
| Byzantine | Excessively complicated; characterized by deviousness or underhand procedure |
| Conciliatory | Likely to placate or pacify |
| Countenance | looks or facial expressions; support |
| Covert | Not openly acknowledged or displayed |
| Diffuse | Spread over a wide area; lack of clarity |
| Documentary | Consisting of or based on official documents |
| Exhaustive | Including or considering all elements or aspects, comprehensive |
| Exhilarating | Make someone very happy, elated, thrilling or animated |
| Extraneous | Irrelevant, unrelated information |
| Fervor | Intense and passionate feeling |
| Futile | Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless |
| Illusory | Based on illusion; not real |
| Invidious | Likely to arouse anger or resentment in others; unfair or discriminating |
| Lethargy | Lack of energy or enthusiasm |
| Metaphor | Figure of speech in which a word or phrase indicates another object which is not literally applicable |
| Numinous | Having a strong religious and spiritual quality |
| Overt | Done or shown openly; Plainly apparent |
| Pellucid | Translucently clear; Lucid, easily understood |
| Perpetuate | Make continue indefinitely |
| Rational | Based on accordance with logic or reasoning |
| Scathing | Witheringly scornful; Severely critical |
| Subtle | so delicate or precise to analyze or describe; crafty; clever, make use of ingenious to achieve one's goal |
| Acquiesce | Accept something reluctantly but without protest |
| Adroit | Clever or skillful |
| Animus | Hostility or ill feeling; motivation to do something |
| Apologist | A person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial |
| Astringent | Sharp or severe in style |
| Correlates | Two or more related or complementary things; one effects the others |
| Deride | Express contempt for; ridicule, make fun of |
