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Positive

Amiable

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Pleasent / Friendly

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Appreciative

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Showing that you understand how good something is, or being grateful for something.

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Benevolent

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Kind / Helpful

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Brave

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Showing no fear

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Calm

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Peaceful & Quiet

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Cheerful

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Happy & Positive

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Compassionate

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Showing strong feelings of sympathy and sadness for the suffering of bad luck of others and the desire to help them.

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Confident

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The quality of being certain of your abilities / having trust in people, plans, or the future.

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Dreamy

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Seeming to be in a dream and not paying attention to what is happening around you.

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Content

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Pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement.

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Ecstatic

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Extremely happy

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Encouraging

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Making you feel confident or hopeful.

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Energetic

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Having or involving a lot of energy

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Hopeful

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Something good that you want to happen in the future.

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Joyful

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Very happy

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Light-hearted

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Happy and not serious

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Jubilant

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Feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of succes.

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Optimistic

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Always believing that good things will happen

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Passionate

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Having very strong feelings or emotions

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Peaceful

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Quiet & Calm

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positive

Playful

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Funny and not serious

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Relaxed

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Feeling happy and comfortable because nothing is worrying you.

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Reverent

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To greatly respect or admire something or someone

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Soothing

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Reducing anger or sadness.

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positive

Surprised

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Feeling or showing surprise because something had happened that you did not expect.

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positive

Sympathetic

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Agreeing with someone / supporting

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positive

Vibrant

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Energetic, exciting, and ful of enthusiasm.

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Accusing

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Stating that someone has done something morally wrong.

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Negative

Agitated

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Upset / Nervous; as if the writer feels anxious

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Negative

Angry

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Having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly, making you want to shout at them or hurt them.

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Negative

Arrogant

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Unpleasently proud and behaving as if the writer is more important than other people.

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Negative

Authoratitive

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Seeming to have an ability to control.

33
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Negative

Bitter

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Describes an experience that causes deep pain or anger.

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Negative

Callous

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Unkind or cruel. Without sympathy or feeling for other people.

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Negative

Childish

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If an adult is childisch, they behave badly in a way they would be expected to be a child.

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Negative

Cold

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Not showing affection, kindness, or emotion, and not being friendly.

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Negative

Condemning

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Express dissaproval

38
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Negative

Condescending

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Showing attitude of patrionizing superiotity

39
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Negative

Critical

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Giving opinions or judgements on books, plays, films, etc.

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Negative

Curt

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Short, with few words as possible - rude.

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Negative

Dissapointed

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Unhappy because someone or something was not as good as you had hoped / expected. Or because something did not happen.

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Negative

Haughty

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Unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than others.

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Negative

Harsh

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Overly critical and unpleasant language

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Negative

Holier-than-thou

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Attitude of moral superiority

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Negative

Inflammatory

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Intent to stir up emotions or invoke physical reaction.

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Negative

Insulting

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Making an offensive remark or action.

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Negative

Irritated

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Annoyed

48
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Negative

Manipulatitive

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Someone who is trying to control other people to their advantage.

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Negative

Obnoxious

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Very unpleasent / Rude

50
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Negative

Outraged

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A feeling of anger and shock

51
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Negative

Passive

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Not acting to influence or change a situation.

52
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Negative

Quarrelsome

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Repeatedly arguing with other people.

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Negative

Self-deprecating

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Trying to make yourself, your abilities, or your achievements seem less important.

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Negative

Shameful

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Deserving blame, or being a reason for feeling ashamed.

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Negative

Straightforward

(Not particulary negative)

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Easy to understand or simple / Honest and not tending to hide opinions.

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Negative

Superficial

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Never thinking about things that are serious or important. Or, lacking details; shallow.

57
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Negative

Tired

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To be bored with something or someone; lack of energy.

57
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Negative

Uninteresested

A

Not interested

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