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Senile

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Having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age

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Accusatory

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Indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong

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Capricious

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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Frenzied

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Wildly excited or uncontrolled

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Disdainful

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Showing contempt or lack of respect

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Indignant

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Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning

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Disgruntled

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Angry or dissatisfied

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Whimsical

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Playfully quaint or fanciful especially in an appealing and amusing way

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Doleful

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To express sorrow

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Coquettish

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Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction or flirtatious

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Haughty

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Arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Agog

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To be very eager or curious to hear or see something

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Circumspect

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To be wary and unwilling to take risks

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward

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Jocular

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To be humorous or playful or to be characterized by joking

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Belligerent

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To be hostile and aggressive

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Macabre

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Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with our depiction of death or injury

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Grim

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Forbidding or uninviting

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Audacious

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Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

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Strident

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To be loud and harsh

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Nostalgic

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Characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia (very sentimental person)

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Urbane

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Suave courteous and refined and manner (polite”

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality (especially with art)

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal

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Effusive

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Expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval

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Maudlin

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Being self pitiful through drunkenness

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Pompous

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To be irritating the grand salon or self important

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Didactic

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Do you intend to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Bombastic

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High sounding, but with little meaning

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Enigmatic

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To be difficult to interpret or understand (mysterious)

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Irate

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Feeling very angry

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Apathetic

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Show and are feeling no interest enthusiasm or concern

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Contemptuous

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To feel that a person or thing is the beneath consideration is worthless or deserves scorn

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Bellicose

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Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight

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Foreboding

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To have the feeling that something bad is going to happen or to be nervous

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Forlorn

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Pitifully sad and abanding or lonely

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Facetious

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To treat very serious issues with inappropriate humor

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Poignant

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

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Somber

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To be dark or dull in color/gloomy

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Ominous

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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen/being suspicious

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Bizarre

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Very strange or unusual

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Sinister

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Getting the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen

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Covetous

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Having or showing great desire to possess something especially when it is someone else’s

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Garrulous

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Excessively talkative especially on trivial matters

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Serene

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To be calm, peaceful, and untroubled

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Vehement

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To show a strong feeling; or to be forceful, passionate, or intense

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Anguished

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To express severe mental or physical pain or suffering

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Neurotic

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To be extremely stressed or to be very anxious

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Perturbed

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To be anxious, settled or upset

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Demonstrative

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Someone who tends to show feelings, especially of affection

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Equitable

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Fair and impartial

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Flippant

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Not sure was serious or respectful attitude

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Bewildered

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To lose one’s way

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Malevolent

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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others

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Zealous

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To have great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective

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Wonky

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To be crooked or off-center

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Pensive

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To be engaged in serious thought

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Listless

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A person who lacks energy or enthusiasm

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Cantankerous

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To be bad tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative

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Postal

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Done through the mail

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Querulous

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Complaining and a petulant or whining matter

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Addled

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To be unable to think clearly or to be confused

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Solemn

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Be formal or in dignified

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Farouche

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To be shy in company

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Ebullient

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To be cheerful and full of energy

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Dogmatic

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To be inclined to lay down principles or laws as incontrovertibly true (not able to be denied)

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Exuberant

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To be filled with our characterized by a lively energy and excitement

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Parsimonious

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To be unwilling to spend money or to be stingy or frugal

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