- affable: characterized by ease and friendliness
- Ambivalent: simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action, uncertainty as to which approach to follow
- Amenable: readily brought to yield, submit, or cooperate
- apathetic: having or showing little or no feeling or emotion
- Assiduous: marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application
- astute: having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity
- Austere: stern and cold in appearance or manner, morally strict,
- camaraderie: a spirit of friendly good-fellowship
- candor: unreserved, honest, or sincere expression, forthrightness
- capricious: inconstant, unpredicatble
- Caustic: capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action, marked by incisive sarcasm
- cogent: having power to compel or constrain, convincing to the mind or reason
- conception: the originating of something in the mind, the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both
- coup: an overturn, an upset
- didactic: designed or intended to teach, making moral observations
- Dilatory: tending or intended to cause delay, characterized by procrastination
- Dilettante: an admirer or lover of the arts, a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge
- disdain: a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior,
- Disingenuous: lacking in candor/honesty/purity/sincerity
- disparage: to depreciate by indirect means, to lower in rank or reputation
- Disparity: containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements, markedly distinct in quality or character
- Dogmatic: characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
- Ebullience: the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings
- effusive: marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm
- Egregious: conspicuously bad
- emollient: making less intense or harsh
- enmity: positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
- Equanimity: evenness of mind especially under stress
- Equivocate: to avoid committing oneself in what one says
- Exculpate: a clearing from blame or fault
- facetious: meant to be humorous or funny
- facile: easily accomplished or attained
- Fastidious: having high and often capricious standards
- feral: of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast, having escaped from domestication and
- fractious: tending to be troublesome
- frenetic: frenzied, frantic
- Hackneyed: lacking in freshness or originality
- Impinge: to strike or dash especially with a sharp collision, to have an effect : make an impression
- incontrovertible: not open to question
- incorrigible: incapable of being corrected or amended
- indolent: habitually lazy, slow to develop or heal
- insipid: lacking taste or savor, lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
- Inveterate: firmly established by long persistence, confirmed in a habit
- jurisprudence: the science or philosophy of law
- laudatory: of, relating to, or expressing praise
- listless: characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit
- lucid: suffused with light, having full use of one's faculties, clear to the understanding
- Malfeasance: wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official
- nascent: coming or having recently come into existence
- Obdurate: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing, hardened in feelings
- Opulent: amply or plentifully provided or fashioned often to the point of ostentation
- Paradigm: an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
- pejorative: having negative connotations, depreciatory
- penitent: feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
- Ponderous: unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size, oppressively or unpleasantly dull
- Prodigious: exciting amazement or wonder, extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree
- Propriety: the quality or state of being proper, conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or speech
- prosaic: characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry, everyday, ordinary
- pugnacious: having a quarrelsome or combative nature
- Rancorous: deeply malevolent, marked by deep-seated ill will
- replete: fully or abundantly provided or filled
- Servile: of or befitting a slave or a menial position
- Solvent: that dissolves or can dissolve
- spurious: outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its genuine
- Staid: marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint
- Stoic: not affected by or showing passion or feeling
- Stratagem: a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end
- tenuous: having little substance or strength
- torpor: a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
- Transitory: tending to pass away, of brief duration
- Trepidation: timorous uncertain agitation, apprehension
- truncated: cut short, curtailed
- vilify: to defame, to utter slanderous andst abusive atements against
- vindicated: to free from allegation or blame, to provide justification or defense for
- Whimsical: subject to erratic behavior or unpredictable change