| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Jovial | Cheerful |
| Latent | Underlying |
| Malevolence | Ill will |
| Motif | Theme in literature, a repeated design |
| Mottled | Spotted |
| Myopia | Lack of foresight |
| Opaque | Not transperent |
| Petulance | Bad temper |
| Phlegmatic | Unexcitable |
| Placid | Calm in nature or appearance |
| Prim | Proper and prudish |
| Quiescent | Inactive |
| Recalcitrant | Resisting authority |
| Salient | Noticeably significant, protruding |
| Sardonic | Cynically mocking |
| Scant | Inadaquete; only |
| Somber | Dark and gloomy |
| Spasmodic | Intermittent; occurring at uneven intervals |
| Stolid | Unemotional |
| Surreptitious | Secretive |
| Tremulous | Fearful; shaking |
| Truculence | Aggressive defiance |
| Turgid | Pompous and over complicated; overflowing |
| Wan | Pale; faint |
| Wry | Amusing and ironic |
| Abdicate | To resign a high office |
| Affable | Friendly |
| Appurtenance | An accompanying part or feature. |
| Benign | Harmless, kind or gentle |
| Bulbous | round and swollen |
| Candid | Honest |
| Chagrin | Strong disappointment |
| Collude | To secretly cooperate with somebody; to do something illegal |
| Complacent | Self satisfied |
| Contemptuous | Expressing dislike |
| Demure | Shy and modest |
| Desultory | Happening in a random way |
| Excelsior | Packing material made from wood shavings |
| Flaccid | Limp or lacking energy |
| Florid | Having an unhealthy pink or red complexion or overly complicated |
| Haphazard | Unplanned |
| Imperceptible | Tiny |
| Incredulous | Showing disbelief |
| Indignant | Angry with injustice |
| Ineffable | Unable to be expressed in words |
| Influx | The sudden arrival of a large number of people or things |
| Ingratiate | To seek someone's favor (acceptance) |
| Insolence | Aggressive disrespect |
| Intrinsic | Basic and essential |
| Jocular | Fond of joking around, humorous |
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