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| uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. |
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| bold or daring; recklessly brave |
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| To speak to in a playful or teasing way. |
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| inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent |
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| impudent; tactless, hasty; rash |
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| to persuade by flattery or promises; wheedle; coax. |
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| frank; outspoken; open and sincere |
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| extremely objective and realistic; dispassionately analytic; unemotionally critical |
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| pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied |
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| showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful |
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| tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome |
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| bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic |
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| impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased; not involved or concerned; aloof |
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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
2. restrained or reserved in manner, conduct |
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| unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; pouring out; overflowing. |
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| To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way |
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| disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant |
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| grim or unpleasantly severe; stern; cruel; austere |
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| deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic |
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| not partial or biased; fair; just |
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| frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness |
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| to inflame with wrath; make angry; enrage |
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| penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant; remarkably clear and direct; sharp; keen |
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| ending to arouse anger, hostility, passion |
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| boldly rude or disrespectful |
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| characterized by or involving warm friendship or a personally close or familiar association or feeling |
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| to look into or examine one's own mind, feelings |
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| Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended |
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| Lacking or exhibiting a lack of reverence; disrespectful.Critical of what is generally accepted or respected; satirical |
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| Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
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| Expressing or conferring praise |
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| mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner |
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| suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome |
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| tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental |
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| A satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or style. Mocking the heroic |
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| pretended serious. Mocking the serious. |
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| narrowly and conventionally mora |
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| unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme,and concerned usually with death |
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| having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous |
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| A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past |
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| offensively condescending manner |
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| Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules |
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| moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance |
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| keen or strong in mental appeal |
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| ssumption of dignity or importance; making an exaggerated outward show |
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| Characterized by or given to meditation or contemplation; thoughtful |
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| feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
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| bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering |
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| exposing human folly to ridicule |
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| to attack with severe criticis |
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| To smile in a silly, self-conscious, often coy manner |
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| full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous |
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| having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
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| servile; excessively submissive; obsequious |
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| harshly abusive criticism |
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| erratic; unpredictable; given to whimsy or fanciful notions |
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| expressive of worship; reverent or adoring |
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| Dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony |
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| marked by active interest and enthusiasm |
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| Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic |
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| tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome |
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| expressing sorrow or lamentation |
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