SET 18

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Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
Affable
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Careful and prudent in one's speech or actions, especially in order to keep something confidential or to avoid embarrassment ; Intentionally unobtrusive.
Discreet
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Seeking to impose an authoritative belief in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations ; A person who seeks to impose an authoritative belief without regard to practical considerations
Doctrinaire
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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude.
Flippant
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(Of words or a speaker) fluent but insincere and shallow.
Glib
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In a passionate, intense, or angry way.
Hotly
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(Of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others.
Invidious
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Impossible to doubt; unquestionable.
Indubitable
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Unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.
Inarticulate
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Treating all rivals or disputants equally.
Impartial
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(Especially of speech or writing) arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings ; Relating to or causing inflammation of a part of the body.
Inflammatory
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Giving signs of immediate occurrence
Imminent
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Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.
Invective
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Giving off light; bright or shining.
Luminous
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Expressed clearly; easy to understand ;
(Literary) bright or luminous.
Lucid
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Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
Pugnacious
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(Especially with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial ; Health-giving.
Salutary
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Very surprising, astonishing, or remarkable.
Startling
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(Of a thing) complete, or having all that is needed, in itself ; (Of accommodation) having its own kitchen and bathroom, and typically its own private entrance.
Self-contained
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(Especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.
Succinct
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Occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places; scattered or isolated.
Sporadic
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Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation ; Having a florid, ruddy complexion, i.e., a reddish tinge to the skin
Sanguine
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Showy but cheap and of poor quality ; sordid or unpleasant.
Tawdry
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Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion ; very stormy.
Tempestuous
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(Of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.
Ungainly
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Leaving no doubt; unambiguous.
Unequivocal
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(Of a person or their behaviour) not acting in accordance with moral values.
Unprincipled
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Of, in, or appropriate to spring.
Vernal
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Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery : corrupt.
Venal
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Using or expressed in more words than are needed.
Verbose
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