Nonchalant | Feeling or appearing calm and relaxed, no anxiety, interest or enthusiasm |
Pensive | Engaged in or involved in deep or serious thought |
Portend | Be a sign that something is going to happen (especially calamitous) |
Rudimentary | Basic, initial (opposite: advanced) |
Salutary | Producing good effects, beneficiary |
Sever | Put an end to; cutting or slicing suddenly |
Slight | Insult by treating or speaking of them without respect |
Somnolent | Drowsy, sleepy |
Stoic | A person who can endure pain without showing their feelings or complaining |
Supersede | take the place of, supplant |
Tout | praise, attempt to sell directly or persisting approach(black market) |
Wane | Decrease in vigor(physical strength) or extent, become weaker |
Boisterous | Noisy, energetic and cheerful |
Chivalrous | Courteous and gallant, especially towards women |
Churlish | Rude in a mean-spirited or surly way |
Clandestine | Kept secretly especially because illicit |
Complacent | Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction for oneself or one's achievements |
Smug | Having or showing excessive pride in one's achievement |
Cumbersome | large and heavy, not able to carry; slow and complicated, inefficient |
Debilitating | make someone weak or infirm |
Droll | Humorous, not serious, unusual |
Fractious | Irritable and quarrelsome, uncontrollable |
Limpid | Clear and transparent |
Mawkish | Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way |
Obeisance | Deferential respect |
Ostentatious | Characterized by pretentious and showy display |
Perilous | Full of danger or risk |
Pervasive | Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people |
Preclude | Prevent from happening, make impossible |
Rapacious | Aggressively greedy and grabby |