ebb: low point, receding tide
besmirch: damange (reputation)
sycophant: bootlicker
sardonic: mocking / synical
fawning: displaying exaggerated flattery
hegemony: leadership / dominance
promulgate: promote
forsake: give up / abandon / leave
self-effacement: the quality of not claiming attention to oneself
profligate: extravagant, spendthrift, wastefultawdry
parsimonious: frugal
pedestrian: commonplace, unimaginative
avaricious: greedy
altruistic: unselfish
frivolous: unimportant
amorphous: shapeless. vague
synoptic: (synopsis) offering a general view
acerbic: acidic
sanguine: hopeful
cloying: too much, sickly sweet <-> saccharine: sickly sweet
decry, disparage: disapprove, depreciate
colloquially: informally
truculent: aggressively assertive
vernacular: using native language
hypochondriacal: excessive recurring concern about one's health
ambivalent: showing simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings
felicitous: apt
prose: the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
terse: using few words
pithy: brief
postulate: demand, claim
vaunted: highly or widely praised or boasted about
gregarious: sociable