Also, your second group of vocabulary words are as follows:
- skullduggery - n - underhanded or unscrupulous behaviour
- temperate - adj - moderate, self-restrained behaviour
- tautology - n - needless repetition of an idea
- absolutism - n - principles or practice of an arbitrary government
- aberration - n - something that differs from the norm
- immiserate - n - to make someone miserable
- entrepreneurial - adj - taking financial risk in the hopes of profit
- protocol - n - a system of rules about correct behaviour; an international agreement
- vex - v - to cause annoyance or disturb
- obfuscate - v - to render something unclear