word wealth 10-5 part 1
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- assertive
- person who is forward or insistent, but not quite officious
- fastidious
- daintly refined, very discriminating
- aggressive
- assertive, vigorously active, quick to attack
- contentious
- likes to argue for the sake of arguing
- garrulousness
- noisy and hardly endurable
- hypercritical
- hard to please, but likely to be more consistent and more serious than a captious critic
- infatuation
- foolish or unreasoning fondness which makes up in intensity what it lacks in durability
- presumptuous
- assumes too much about, or for, himself, and thus becomes too bold or forward
- prudish
- excessive sense of delicacy or proptirty in speech, dress, or behavior
- dogmas
- of a church are its official doctrines or beliefs.
- officious
- forward in a meddlesome or objectionable manner
- disdainful
- haughty or contemptuous, but not overbearing
- forward
- quick to take the initiative, but with less hint of contest or struggle
- pessimistic
- (nature) takes a dark, distrustful, and thus cynical view or people and of nature.
- captious
- fault finding, hard to please
- fatuous
- complacently stupid or silly
- dogmatic
- unduly positive, dictatorial
- loquaciousness
- excessive but endurable
- peevish or petulant
- sulky and fretful about small matters
- fatuus
- latin word for foolish
- sardonic
- (nature) is bitterly scornful and more biting than a sarcastic temperament with its ill humor or a satiric mnature with its often witty creativeness
- vloubility
- windy talk, ample, empty, hinting of "hot air"
- supercilious
- (air) is disdainfully or scornfully aloof
- arrogant
- haughty, overbearingly proud
- misanthropic
- view of humankind is one of detestation rather than of merely pessimistic hopelssness.
- garrulous
- talkitive
- querulous
- likely to be ill natured and merely a complainer
- particular
- fussy about details
- insolent
- arrogantly rude and discourteous
- scrupulous
- person is very precise and discriminating, but more on ethical than on aesthetic or emotoinal grounds.
- quibbler or caviler
- grasps at trifles and is less serious or sincere than a captious person
- sarcastic
- has little love and much distrust for people and thus make cruel and cutting remarks.
- cynical
- scornfully distrustful
- squeamish
- unduly sensitive to what is unsavory
- satirical
- sees and ridicules the vices and follies of the world