Aperitif - an alcoholic drink taken before a meal as an appetizer
Assiduous - showing great care, attention, and effort; marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application
Calumniation - to utter maliciously false statements, charges, or imputations about
Castigation - to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
Commove - to move violently; agitate; to rouse intense feeling in; excite to passion
Cozen - to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery
Dissentient - expressing dissent (i.e., to withhold assent or approval; or differ in opinion)
Fabulist - a creator or writer of fables; liar
Heterodox - holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines; unconventional
Immurement - to enclose within or as if within walls; imprisonment
Intemperance - lack of moderation
Internecine - deadly; mutually destructive
Inveigle - entice; to acquire by ingenuity or flattery
Mythomania - an excessive or abnormal propensity for lying and exaggerating
Outré - violating convention or propriety
Palter - to act insincerely or deceitfully
Parlous - full of danger or risk; obsolete: dangerously shrewd or cunning
Phantasmagoria - a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined; a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
Recondite - difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
Sanguinary - bloodthirsty, murderous
Schism - separation; disharmony
Soigné - well-groomed, sleek; elegantly maintained or designed
Sybarite - voluptuary (i.e., a person whose chief interests are luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites); sensualist (i.e., one who is persistent or excessive in their pursuit of sensual pleasures and interests)
Truculent - deadly, destructive