All terms in this list:

adulterate: To corrupt.

animosity: Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

apocryphal: Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical.

avarice: greediness after wealth

coalesce: To join into a single mass or whole.

collaborate: To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

cryptic: Having hidden meaning.

desultory: Out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject.

dissipation: The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

edifying: That educates, informs, illuminates or instructs.

equivocate: to mislead

espousing: marrying

hedonist: someone who seeks pleasure as sole aim in life

indefatigable: Extremely persistent and untiring.

naive: Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement.

parody: A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.

peripheral: on the periphery or boundary

portent: a sign of forewarning

prodigious: Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.

profane: Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

respite: A brief interval of rest or relief.

sordid: Dirty or squalid.

surfeited: supplied to excess

trifling: idle or frivolous

interminable: Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.