| audacious, courageous, dauntless | Bold |
| capricious, mercurial, volatile | Changing Quickly |
| dither, vacillate, oscillate, waver, teeter | Hesitate |
| credulous, naive, gullible, novitiate, ingenuous, tyro | Innocent/Inexperienced |
| abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid | Difficult To Understand |
| articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid | Easy To Understand |
| astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious | Smart/Learned |
| aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame/defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate | Criticize/Criticism |
| bacchanalian, debauchery, deprave, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude | Carousal |
| candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity | Truth |
| apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious | Falsehood |
| acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant | Biting (as in wit or temperament) |
| acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration | Praise |
| baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious ,pernicious | Harmful |
| craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation | Timid/Timidity |
| Banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite | Boring |
| adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate | Weaken |
| abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance | Assist |
| antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive | Hostile |
| implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing | Stubborn |
| burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent | Beginning/Young |
| altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting | Generous/Kind |
| avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal | Greedy |
| compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn | Terse |
| bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose | Overblown/wordy |
| authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic/hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical | Dictatorial |
| abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor | Hatred |
| dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro | Beginner/Amateur |
| indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid | Lazy/Sluggish |
| ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe | Pacify/Satisfy |
| absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate | Forgive/Make amends |
| destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent | Poor |
| ardent/ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot | Favoring/Not impartial |
| abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate | Denying of self |
| ambulatory, itinerant, meander, peripatetic | Walking about |
| disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous | Insincere |
| discomfit, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude | Prevent/obstruct |
| aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast | Eccentric/Dissimiliar |
| chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper | Funny |
| disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody | Sorrow |
| defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative | Disgusting/Offensive |
| abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, | Withdrawal/Retreat |
| bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith | Death/Mourning |
| counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, simulate, vicarious | Copy |
| equitable, equity, tantamount | Equal |
| aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy | Unusual |
| discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn | Wandering |
| abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift | Gaps/Openings |
| beneficial, salubrious, salutary | Healthy |
| Abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse | Abbreviated |
| adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism | Wisdom |
| conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fraternal, progenitor, scion | Family |
| askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex | Not a straight line |
| appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse | Investigate |
| anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal | Time/Order/Duration |
| bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish | Bad Mood |
| abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue | Embarrass |
| asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation | Hard-Hearted |
| admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof | Nag |
| augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, precursor, presage, prescient, prognosticate | Predict |
| adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, serendipity, talisman | Luck |
| fetid, noisome, noxious | Nasty |
| cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident | Harsh-sounding |
| euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous | Pleasant-sounding |
