Schadenfreude

Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.

Mendacity

(1) The condition of being mendacious; untruthfulness.
(2) A lie; a falsehood.

Tergiversate

(1) To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.
(2) To change sides; apostatize.

Weltschmerz

Sadness over the evils of the world, especially as an expression of romantic pessimism.

Provenance

(1) Place of origin; derivation.
(2) Proof of authenticity or of past ownership. Used of art works and antiques.

Mendacious

(1) Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child.
(2) False; untrue: a mendacious statement. See Synonyms at dishonest.

Gerund

(1) In Latin, a noun derived from a verb and having all case forms except the nominative.
(2) In other languages, a verbal noun analogous to the Latin gerund, such as the English form ending in -ing when used as a noun, as in singing in We admired the choir's singing.

Imbroglio

(1a) A difficult or intricate situation; an entanglement.
(1b) A confused or complicated disagreement.
(2) A confused heap; a tangle.

Legerdemain

(1) Sleight of hand.
(2) A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.

Treacle

(1) Cloying speech or sentiment.
(2) A medicinal compound formerly used as an antidote for poison.

Sybarite

A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.

Enucleate

(1) Medicine.To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac.
(2) Biology. To remove the nucleus of.
(3) Archaic. To explain; elucidate.

Pervicacious

Refusing to change one's ideas, behavior, etc.; stubborn; obstinate.