| Term | Definition |
|---|
| admonitory | expressing a friendly or gentle reproof: warning |
| adroit | having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations |
| antagonized | to incur or provoke the hostility of |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute |
| coagulate | being clotted or congealed |
| consolatory | to alleviate the grief, sense of loss |
| contentious | exhibiting an often perverse and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes |
| decried | to express strong disapproval of |
| dexterity | mental skill or quickness or readiness and grace in physical activity; |
| disperse | to cause to become spread widely |
| dynamism | a theory that all phenomena (as matter or motion) can be explained as manifestations of force |
| ebullience | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings |
| fastidious | reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude |
| finagler | to obtain by indirect or involved means |
| galvanized | to stimulate or excite as if by an electric schock<an issue that would galvanize public opinion |
| gregarious | marked by or indicating a liking for companionship |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest |
| laudatory | of, relating to, or expressing praise |
| magnanimous | showing or suggesting nobility of feeling and generosity of mind |
| meticulous | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| mollified | to soothe in temper or disposition |
| nihilism | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| parsimonious | frugal to the oint of stinginess |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| polarity | attraction towarda particular object or in a specific direction |
| pragmatic | practical approach to problems and affairs |
| prognosticator | to foretell from signs or symptoms: predict |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech: reserved |
| tepid | 1:moderately warm: lukewarm 2 a: lacking in passion, force, or zest |
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