internecine - mutually destructive

acumen - good judgement

depredate - steal from using force |vs| expropriate- when a state takes property
from its owner for public use
expedient - convenient and practical although improper
tenuous - very weak
rarefied - distant from the lives of ordinary people
vestigial - remaining or forming a small remnant of the past that was once great;
eg: It is vestigial- no longer relevant in our daily lives/ he felt a vestigial
flicker of anger