- abstain: to refrain from something by one's choice.
- coherent: showing an orderly relation of parts; sticking together
- colloquial: characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
- commiserate: to feel or express sorrow or pity
- commodious: spacious, roomy, as in a house
- condone: to forgive; to disregard an offense
- contrite: thoroughly remorseful and repentant of one's sins
- impertinent: impudent, rude; irrelevant
- pertinacious: holding firmly, even stubbornly, to a belief
- tenacity: haning on to something persistently or stubbornly