| salvation | an instance of saving |
| to seek sanctuary | to seek refuge |
| to repudiate | to refuse to accept sth |
| repudiation | an instance of refusing to accept |
| aberration | deviation |
| to disdain | to contempt |
| disinclination | an instance of being unlikely to do sth |
| expedient | useful, helpful |
| egregious | exceptional (of bad things only) |
| munificent | extremely generous |
| circumspect | cautious, wary |
| insipid | lacking in taste |
| a calumny | a slander |
| a dearth of | a shortage of |
| an insurgence | a rebellion, an uprising |
| plethora | abundance |
| an inhibition | an instance of making sb unable to behave naturally |
| a misanthrope | sb who hates people |
| a nonentity | an unimportant person |
| clemency | mercy/ mildness (of climate) |
| incipient | in its early stage |
| fatuous | stupid, silly |
| inane | without meaning, silly, senseless |
| prophetic | foretelling |
| salubrious | healthgiving |
| litigation | lawsuit |
| mercantile | of merchant |
| to deplore | to condemn ? |
| to ponder | to muse |
| to surpress | to tame |
| intrinsic | inherent |
| specious | that seems right, but actually is wrong |
| dormant | temporarily inactive |
| gratuitous | done unnecessarily, without good reason |
| indigence | poverty |
| to enervate | to cause sb to lose strength or energy |
| opulence | abundance, copiousness |
| timeliness | relevance, suitability (it has to do with time) |
| effervescence | excitedness, liveliness |
| to accomplish | to achieve |
| pedestrian | dull, uninteresting |
| to enthrall | to excite, to captivate |
| auspicious | favourable, promising |
| masterful | domineering |
| volatile | unstable, fickle |
| acerbic | harsh, sharp |
| to replenish | to refill |