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Temerity
Willingness to do something that shocks or upsets other people
Tawdry
Showy or gaudy but without real value
Temperate
Moderation or self-control
Tempestuous
Full of strong and intense emotions
Temporize
Delay making a decision or stating your opinion
Tenable
Reasonable
Tenacious
Keeping an opinion in a determined way
Tenacity
Determination to continue what you are doing
Tenure
Term
Terse
Using a few words
Tertiary
Third
Threshold
Beginning
Thwarted
Opposed successfully
Timorous
Nervous
Tolerance
Ability to bear something unpleasant or annoying
Torpid
Not active
Torpor
Lack of activity
Torrent
Violent stream of water
Touchstone
Established standard
Tout
Try to get people to buy in an annoyingly insistent way
Tractable
Easily guided or controlled
Transient
Lasting for only a short time
Transitory
Lasting for only a short time
Transmute
Change something into a completely different thing