(Please note that definitions have been kept short for memorization purposes.)
- Benign - non-threatening, innocuous
- Canvas - a piece of cloth on which an artist paints
- Deft - skilled, adept
- Enervated - lacking energy, weakened, exhausted
- Fatuous - silly, foolish
- Gourmand - one who likes eating and drinking
- Hiatus - an interruption in continuity, a break
- Incessant - without interruption
- Lavish – extravagant
- Mandatory - required, not optional
