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| briefness or conciseness in speech or writing |
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| using few words in speaking and writing |
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| using few words in speech |
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| brief and full of meaning and substance;concise |
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| not talking much; reserved |
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| clearly and briefly stated; concise |
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| silent; sparing of words; close-mouthed |
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| using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise |
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| speaking in circles; roundbout speech |
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| pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational |
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| spread out, not concise;wordy |
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| to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about |
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| artful ease with speaking; speech that can impact people's feelings |
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| using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others |
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| very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous |
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| to speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly |
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| to talk verly loudly, even wildly |
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| relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression |
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| using too many words; wordy; long-winded |
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| talking a great deal with ease; glib |
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| overbearing; proud; haughty |
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| one who boasts a great deal |
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| lacking respect; scornful |
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| full of bitter scorn or pride; aloof |
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| excessively self-absorbed; very conceited |
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| having great pride in oneself and dislike for others |
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| boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; rude |
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| having to do with extreme self-adoration; person who feels superior to everyone |
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| having to do with showing off; pretentious |
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| too forward or bold; overstepping proper boundaries |
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| claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand |
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| looking down on others; proud and scornful |
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| to walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner |
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| dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed |
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| an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse |
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| unoriginal; taken from something already existing |
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| made commonplace by overuse; trite |
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| lacking flavor or taste; unexciting |
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| lacking vitality, energy, or birghtness; boring |
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| quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as it it were original |
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| unoriginal and stale due to overuse |
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| lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale |
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| to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain |
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| to lessen pain or tension |
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| to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension |
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| to make tranquil or quiet, especially by giving into demands; to pacify |
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| to alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify |
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| to win a person over through special considerations or persuasive methods |
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| to act as a go-between in settling conflicts or disputers between people or opposing sides |
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| to make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage |
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| to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent |
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| to calm; to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state |
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| to pacify; to subdue; to quiet down |
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| easy to talk to; easy to appraoch, friendly; kind; amiable |
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| showing goodwill; peaceable |
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| compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic |
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| sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company |
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| warm and friendly; amiable |
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| liking to be with people, joke around with them and have fun |
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| lightheartedness; gaiety; carefree disposition, particularly when not appropriate |
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| of a quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike; belligerent |
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| taking part in war or fighting; ready to fight |
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| bad-tempered; quarrelsome |
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| made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling |
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| likely to dispute or argue |
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| inclined to argue or debate; controversial |
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| one who takes advantage of another, exploits or feeds on another; a strong adversary or rival |
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| eager to fight; belligerent |
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| showing an unselfish concern for others |
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| giving freely and easily to others; charitable |
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| generous in giving to others or in spending money |
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| generous in overlooking insult or injury by others; rising above pettiness |
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| showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable; humane |
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| having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to foregoing luxuries, frills |
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| careful with money; thrifty; not costly |
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| greedy for self-gain; thinking only of money-making |
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| careful with how money is spent; thrifty |
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| overly thrifty or miserly |
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| stingy; relating to great poverty, destitution |
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| showing care with how money and resources are spent or used; miserly |
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| great trouble or difficulty |
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| hidden; hard to understand; mysterious; obscure |
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| a failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical |
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| a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person |
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| a maze from which it is very hard to extricate (free) oneself |
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| dangerous or risky; uncertain |
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| a dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation |
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| great unrest; turmoil or disorder |
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| a very puzzling scenario or situation; tumult |
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| causing ruin; harmful; pernicious |
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| harmful to one's health or overall welfare; pernicious |
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| showing a lack of fairness; wicked; vicious |
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| intending to hurt or harm another; spiteful |
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| loathsome; evil; revolting in a disgusting way |
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| pertaining to an evil omen; foreboding |
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| very destructive or harmful, usually in an inconspicuous and relentless way |
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| deeply hateful or spiteful; malicious |
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| extremely poisonous; deadly; full of spiteful hatred |
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| to rebuke or scold in a harsh tone |
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| to scold to punish severely |
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| to punish or scold harshly |
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| to oppose or attack someone or something as false or refutable |
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| to snub; to bluntly refuse |
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| to reprimand or scold sharply |
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| to speak to in a disapproving manner; to scold |
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| to chide; to scold bitterly |
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| uninterested; showing no concern; emotionally removed or distant |
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| indifferent; showing no care, interest, or concern; lacking emotion |
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| apathetic; showing little or no concern or care |
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| lacking interest in something, usually because of illness, fatigue, or general sadness; spiritless |
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| causual and indifferent; not showing any great concern or worry about anything |
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| hard to get excited or emotional; calm |
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| emotionally distant and disinterested; aloof; uninvolved; distant, far away |
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| lacking emotion or not showing any emotion |
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| lazy; not wanting to do any work |
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| a weak or lifeless feeling |
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| a tired feeling, usually resulting from depression or too much work |
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| having little or no energy |
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| having to do with sitting around a lot |
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| lacking movement or energy |
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| lacking energy; relating to inactivity; feeling sluggish |
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| gaining favor of another by acting overly kind or by flattery |
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| obeying or performing a service for someone in an overly attentive manner |
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| slave-like; very humble and submissive |
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| slave-like; overly humble; involving very hard work |
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| voluntarily obeying another; humble |
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| inferior; lower in rank or status |
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| a self-server who tries to gain the favor of others through the use of flattery or by being overattentive |
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