The star that shines the brightest burns the fastest
Maintain | keep something
Sustain | hold up / keep up something
Retain | continue / keep / hold in place or position
Nurture | support / bring up / protect
Prolong | to make longer
lengthen out
Perpetuate | to preserve from extinction or oblivion
lasting indefinitely / everlasting
Analogous | analogy / similarity
certain similar aspects of two things
Poignant | evoking a sense of regret / sadness
Benign | kind / gentle / unharmful
Dry Spell | a period without success
Catharsis | releasing and providing relief from strong
/ repressed emotions
Solace: Comfort/Consultation in a time of distress/sadness
Animosity: Strong hostility
Hubris: Excessive pride / self-confidence
Dilemma: A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made
between undesirable choices
Dismantle: Take a machine / structure to pieces
Echelon: Level or rank in an organisation / a military formation
Arduous: Involving / requiring great effort / difficult / tiring
Quartered: Be stationed or lodged in a specific place
Blitzkrieg: A swift, focused, and rapid attack, with overwhelming
force
Sovereign: Possessing supreme or ultimate power
Armaments: Military weapons and equipment
Prognosis: A forecast on the likely outcome of a situation
Armistice: A temporary truce
Lilt: A pleasant gentle accent
Apparition: Something unexpected / Ghost or ghostlike image of
someone
Terrestrial: Relating to earth / land
Metronomically: Mechanically or unvaryingly regular in rhythm
Upholster: Provide (furniture) with a soft, padded covering
Ottoman: A low upholstered seat without a back or arms that
typically also serves as a box
Tentative: Not certain or fixed; provisional / Done without
confidence; hesitant
Stage-whisper: A loud whisper that supposedly other characters do
not hear
Duly: In accordance with expected procedures / expectedly
Putrid: decaying / rotting / very unpleasant / repulsive
Addled: Unable to think clearly / confused
Curtsied: Traditional gendered (female) gesture of greeting
(bowing down)
Drawl: Speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds.
Contorted: Twisted or bent out of the normal shape.
Extricate: Free (someone or something) from a constraint or
difficulty
Circumscribe: Restrict (something) within limits
Commiserate | express or feel sympathy or pity
sympathise
Pernicious | having a harmful effect [gradually / subtly]
Contingent | subject to chance
occurring under certain circumstances
group of people sharing common feature
Caveat |
Draconian | excessively harsh + severe [laws / applications of
Laws]
Ubiquitous | present, appearing, or found everywhere
Monotonous | dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and
interest
Curmudgeon
Incongruous
Dubiously
Dilapidated
