- Hunky-dory is an informal adjective that means satisfactory, fine, or OK, or about as well as one could wish or expect. For example, "Everything is hunky-dory right now".
- Conflate is a verb that means to combine two or more things into one entity or merge.
- Dossier: a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject."we have a dossier on him”
- Edgy: tense, nervous, or irritable."he became edgy and defensive”
- Desperation is a feeling of loss of hope and surrender to dread or misery, or a state of hopelessness that leads to extreme recklessness.
- A rebuttal is a speech that offers a contrary argument or contention to refute something.
- Swindle means to cheat or deceive someone out of money or other assets.
- Roiled means to stir up, disturb, or disorder something.
- Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of snakes that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Pleistocene, about 100 million years ago. They were mostly found in Gondwana, but were also found in Madagascar, South America, India, Africa, and Europe during the Late Cretaceous. By the end of the Eocene, they were only found in Australia and Argentina.
- Beacon means a strong light that can be seen from far away and that is used to help guide ships, airplanes, etc..