| A | B |
|---|
| acerbic | Sharp or biting, as in character or expression: |
| sardonic | Scornfully or cynically mocking |
| flippant | Showing disrespectful levity or casualness |
| reticent | Restrained or reserved; keeping one’s thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; reluctant to speak openly |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| penitent | feeling or showing sadness for a person's own sins or faults |
| recalcitrant | having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline |
| pensive | Musingly, dreamily or sadly thoughtful |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach; lecturing; (has the connotation of excessively explanatory) |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters :practical as opposed to idealistic |
