- accursed: abominable, hateful; being under a curse, doomed
- subdue: overcome, bring under control
- anguish: severe mental or physical pain or suffering
- toil: work extremely hard (verb); exhausting physical labor (noun)
- frankness: the quality of being open and honest
- remote: situated far from the main centers of a population; distant; unlikely to occur
- valour: great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle
- fiendish: extremely cruel or unpleasant; devilish; awkward; complex
- circumvent: overcome; find a way around
- intrepidity: a lack of fear in dealing with something new or unknown
- pate: a person's head
- thrall: the state of being in someone's power or having great power over someone; a slave, servant, or captive
- vengeance: punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong
- primal: essential, fundamental
- primitive: relating to or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary/historical development of something
- primeval: of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
- desolation: a state of complete emptiness or destruction
- opaque: not able to be seen through
- discords: lack of harmony between notes sounding together; disagree
- tumultuous: making a loud, confused noise
- incontinently: in an unrestrained manner; without moral restraint
- curtly: rudely brief or abrupt
- pensive: engaging in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought
- farcical: ridiculous
- anaphora: the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence
- chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases
- fatalism: the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable
- sophism: an argument apparently correct in form but actually invalid; argument meant to deceive
- cynicism: an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest
- tactile: of or connected with the sense of touch
- olfactory: of or relating to the sense of smell
- respite: a short period of rest/relief from something difficult or unpleasant
- permutation: a way in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged
- synesthesia: a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality
- paradox: made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually possible
- aphorism: a concise statement of a principle
- moored: make fast by attaching it by a cable/rope to the shore or to an anchor
- impalpable: unable to be felt by touch
- sordid: involving ignoble actions and motives, arousing moral distaste and content
- disinterred: dig up; discover
- disparagingly: used with a deliberate intent to belittle a particular ethnic, religious, or social group
- peal: a loud ringing of a bell or bells
- melodramatic: exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional
- otherworldly: of or relating to an imaginary or spiritual world
- barbering: cut or trim