| vitality | being alive |
| indolently | lazily |
| slender | thin |
| doggedly | persistently |
| crags | uneven parts of cliffs |
| opaque | not able to be seen through |
| gargoyle | decorative monster |
| cultivated | refined |
| baronial | suitable for nobility |
| cossack | skilled Russian horsemen |
| lacerated | torn roughly |
| mantle | thickest layer inside Earth |