trifling

(adj.): frivolous, inconsequential

unremitting

(adj.): constant; never stopping

affluence

(n.): wealth

contrive

(v.): to plan skillfully; to design

incorrigible

(adj.): incapable of being reformed or corrected

artifice

(n.): a clever means to an end

felicity

(n.): great happiness

flux

(n.): change

precipitate

(v.): to bring about, especially abruptly

camaraderie

(n.): a spirit of friendly good-fellowship

surfeit

(n.): a fullness beyond the point of satisfaction

mundane

(adj.): characteristic of or concerned with the ordinary

petulance

(n.): ill temper; annoyance

patrimony

(n.): estate or money inherited from ancestors

precarious

(adj.): risky; uncertain

retinue

(n.): a group of attendants or followers

blatantly

(adv.): in an extremely obvious way; conspicuously