| A | B |
|---|
| abstinent | not doing something, esp. something bad |
| affluent | rich. prosperous. |
| altruistic | selfless, generous |
| ardent | passionate |
| benevolent | kind, generous |
| circumspect | cautious, looking around carefully b4 acting |
| decorous | proper, in good taste, orderly |
| exacting | extremely demanding, requiring great care or skill |
| extrovert | open, outgoing, person, one who focuses on others, not on himself or herself |
| fastidious | meticulous, demanding, picky |
| impartial | fair, not favoring one side or the other, unbiased |
| indulgent | lenient, yielding to desire |
| judicious | exercising sound judgement |
| magnanimous | forgiving, unresentful, noble in spirit, generous |
| philanthropic | loving of humankind; one who does good deeds |
| prudent | careful, having foresight |
| sagacious | discerning, shrewd, wise, keen in judgement |
| scrupulous | strict, careful, hesitant for ethical reasons |
| tenacious | persistent; stubborn, not letting go |
| urbane | poised, sophisticated, refined |
| acerbic | bitter, sour, severe |
| apathy | lack of interest, lack of feeling |
| capricious | unpredictable, likely to change at any moment |
| cynic | 1 who deeply distrusts human nature, 1 who blieves humans r motivated by selfishness |
| destitute | extremely poor, utterly lacking |
| fatuous | foolish, silly, idiotic |
| inane | silly, senseless |
| indolent | lazy |
| insatiable | avaricious, greedy, impossible or nearly impossible to satisfy |
| intransigent | uncompromising, stubborn |
| mendacious | lying, dishonest |
| nefarious | evil, flagrantly wicked |
| obdurate | stubborn, insensitive |
| ostentatious | excessively conspicuous, showing off |
| parochial | narrow or confined in point of view, provincial |
| preemptory | seizing by prior right, to have precedence over |
| profligate | extravagantly wasteful and, usually wildly immoral |
| reclusive | hermitlike, withdrawn from society |
| supercilious | haughty, patronizing |
| vindictive | seeking revenge |
| abstruse | hard to understand (adj) |
| antithesis | the direct opposite (n) |
| concise | brief and to the point, succint |
| conjecture | to guess, to deduce or infer on slight evidence |
| construe | to interpret (v) ...from/preposition |
| corollary | something that follows, a natural consequence |
| deduce | to conclude from the evidence, to infer (v) |
| desultory | w/o a plan or purpose, disconnected, random (adj) |
| dialectical | relating to rules & methods of reasoning, approaching truth in the middle of opposite extremes (adj) |
| extrapolate | to deduce or project from something known, to infer (v) +from/preposition |
| incisive | cutting right to the heart of the matter (adj) |
| nuance | a subtle difference or distinction (n) |
| opaque | impossible to see through, impossible to understand |
| pertinent | relevant, dealing with the matter at hand |
| polemic | a powerful argumnt often made to attack or refute a controversial issue (n) |
| postulate | something accepted as true w/o proof, an axiom |
| profound | deep |
| redundant | unecessarily, repetitive, excessively wordy |
| spurious | false, fake |
| tautalogical | redundant, circular (adj) |
