Vocabulary

• Hubris


  Excessive pride
• Philanthropist 


  A person who seeks to promote the welfare of other; generous and benevolen.
• Beneficent


  Generous or doing good.
• Exuberant


  Full of energy, excitement or cheerfulness.
• Rancorous


  Characterised by bitterness or resentment.
• Repentant 


  Expressing feelings of regret and remorse.
• Misanthrope


  A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
• Anti-hero


  A central character who lacks conventional heroic characteristics.
• Merciless 


  Showing no mercy or pity; ruthless.
• Benevolent


  Well meaning; kindly.
• Avaricious


  Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
• Covetous

  Having or showing desire to posses something belonging to someone else.
• Jocund

  Cheerful and light-hearted.
• Parsimonious

  Very unwilling to spend money or use resources.
• Malevolent

  Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
• Altruistic

  Showing a selfless concern for the well-being of others.
• Magnanimous

  Generous or forgiving, especially towards rivals or a less powerful person.
• Anguished

  Expressing or experiencing sever mental or physical pain or suffering.
• Forsaken

  Abandoned or deserted.
• Reformed

  Having been changed in such a way as to be improved.
• catalytic

  Speeding up or bringing about a change.
• Apparition

  A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
• Solstice

  The point the apparent path of the sun at which the sun is farthest north or south of the equator.
• Yule

  A pagan celebration of the rebirth of the sun.
• Euphemism

  a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.