- -ist: One that performs a specified action
- -wise: In a specified manner, direction, or position
- ab-: Away from
- abstract: thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances
- auto-: Self; same
- cent-: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- didactic: intended for instruction; instructive
- discriminate: recognize or perceive the difference
- dispassionate: unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
- exhaustive: very thorough
- fervor: feelings of great warmth and intensity
- impartial: free from undue bias or preconceived opinions
- inevitable: incapable of being avoided or prevented
- infamous: having an exceedingly bad reputation
- redundant: repetition of same sense in different words
- subtle: faint and difficult to analyze
- vacillate: move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- valid: well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force