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Austere

adjective
severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance

Vehement

Adjective
showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense

Strident

adjective
loud and harsh; grating

Ostentatious

adjective
characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice

Derisive

adjective
expressing contempt or ridicule

Sanguine

adjective
cheerfully optimistic

Corpulent

adjective
(of a person) fat.

Pompous

adjective
affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important

Facetious

adjective
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

Manifest

adjective
clear or obvious to the eye or mind

Malady

malady
noun
a disease or ailmen

Allude

verb
suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at

Grievance

noun
a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, esp. unfair treatment

Scintillate

verb
emit flashes of light; sparkle.

Vitiate

verb
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of

Remonstrance

noun
a forcefully reproachful protest

Profligate

adjective
recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Nuance

noun
a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound

Fortuitous

adjective
happening by accident or chance rather than design

Fecund

adjective
producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertile.