| A | B |
| allay alleviate assuage appease mollify mitigate | V to sooth or lessen |
| trite hachneyed banal | A overused or cliched, unoriginal |
| n-dearth a-meager n-paucity | few or lacking |
| n-hiatus n-moratorium v-adjourn n-respite n-lull | take break, stop in the action |
| loquacious garrulous verbose | A talk a lot |
| taciturn reticent laconic concise succint | A say very little, *concise and succint* |
| languid listless phlegmatic enervated wan n-torpor | A out of energy *somnolent soporific indolent* |
| concise succint | A say very little, right to the point |
| somnolent soporific | A sleepy |
| indolent | A lazy |
| evanescent ephermeral fleeting n/a-transient | A lasting only a short time |
| elated ebullient ecstatic exuberant exhilarated | A very happy |
| despondent dejected dispirited disconsolate | A very sad |
| clandestine surreptitious covert strealthy furtive | A secret/undercover |
| obstinate obdurate intractable intransigent dogged | A stubborn |