| A | B |
|---|
| belligerent | Taking part in war or fighting; ready to fight |
| cantankerous | Bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
| magnanimous | Generous in overlooking insults by others; rising above pettiness |
| parsimonious | Overly thrifty or miserly |
| affable | Easy to talk to; friendly; kind |
| altruistic | Showing an unselfish concern for others |
| austere | Having great ecomony; showing self-control when it comes to foregoing luxuries |
| precarious | Dangerous; uncertain; risky |
| jocular | Liking to be with people and joke around with them |
| avaricious | Greedy |
| lavish | Generous in giving to others or spending money |
| thrifty | Showing care with how money and resources are spent or used |
| prodigal | Wasteful; lavish |
| confounding | Puzzling; baffling |
| captious | Made just for the sake of arguing or quibbling |
| cryptic | Hidden; hard to understand; mysterious |
| disputatious | Likely to dispute or argue |
| mercenary | Greedy for self-gain; thinking only of making money |
| penurious | Stingy; relating to great poverty or destitution |
| philanthropic | Showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable |
