Commiserating
To sympathize with someone or comfort them
Mitigate
To reduce severity and harm and make something more bearable
Gaunt
Someone who is skinny and lean due to hunger, suffering or age
Smoulder
Something that burns slowly without a flame
Wretched
Someone who is extremely miserable and unhappy
Vastness
To be big and grand
Stifling
To be constrained or supressed
Fiery
To be spirited or volatile
Proffer
To hold something out with the purpose of being taken or touched
Lordly
To act as if you are noble or majestic