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