"Obscure Words" - Brian Williams

Recalcitrant - Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.

Obsequious - Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Pusillanimous - Showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.

Anachronism - a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.