| A | B |
|---|
| meticulous | very careful about details; fussy |
| morose | gloomy; bad-tempered |
| nonchalance | carelessness; lack of interest or concern. |
| obscure | not clear or distinct; hidden; remote; not well known |
| officious | meddling; giving unnecessary or unwanted advice or services. |
| opulent | wealthy; abundant |
| painstaking | very careful; diligent. |
| parsimonious | too thrifty; stingy. |
| paucity | scarcity; smallness in number or amount |
| perceptive | discerning; observant; sensitive. |
| peripheral | external; incidental; tangential. |
| philistine | . narrow-minded; smugly conventional |
| pique | to hurt the feeling of or make resentful; to arouse or excite |
| placid | outwardly calm or composed; self-satisfied; peaceful. |
| platitude | a thought or remark that is dull, trite, flat or weak. |
| ponderous | very heavy; bulky; labored and dull or tiresome. |
| preclude | to make impossible; to shut out; to prevent. |
| prestigious | honored; having an illustrious name or reputation. |
| profane | secular; not holy; not connected with religion; irreverent. |
| prolific | producing many offspring; producing much; abundant |
| provincial | having the ways and speech of a certain province; of or like country people as apart from city people (unsophisticated); thinking in narrow ways. |
| pugnacious | eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome. |
| querulous | peevish; faultfinding; expressing or suggestive of complaint. |
| raconteur | a person skilled in telling stories or anecdotes. |
| raze | to tear down completely; to destroy. |
| recalcitrant | refusing to obey rules or follow orders; unmanageably resistant. |
| recapitulate | to repeat in concise form. |
| redundant | . wordy; exceeding what is necessary or normal; lavish; overflowing. |
| relic | a thing or part that remains from the past; something kept as sacred because it belongs to a saint. |
| rescind | to cancel; to repeal; to set aside. |
