Word Wealth 10-5 Part 1

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assertive

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person who is forward or insistent, but not quite officious

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fastidious

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daintly refined, very discriminating

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aggressive

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assertive, vigorously active, quick to attack

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contentious

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likes to argue for the sake of arguing

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garrulousness

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noisy and hardly endurable

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hypercritical

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hard to please, but likely to be more consistent and more serious than a captious critic

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infatuation

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foolish or unreasoning fondness which makes up in intensity what it lacks in durability

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presumptuous

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assumes too much about, or for, himself, and thus becomes too bold or forward

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prudish

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excessive sense of delicacy or proptirty in speech, dress, or behavior

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dogmas

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of a church are its official doctrines or beliefs.

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officious

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forward in a meddlesome or objectionable manner

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disdainful

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haughty or contemptuous, but not overbearing

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forward

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quick to take the initiative, but with less hint of contest or struggle

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pessimistic

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(nature) takes a dark, distrustful, and thus cynical view or people and of nature.

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captious

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fault finding, hard to please

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fatuous

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complacently stupid or silly

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dogmatic

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unduly positive, dictatorial

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loquaciousness

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excessive but endurable

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peevish or petulant

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sulky and fretful about small matters

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fatuus

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latin word for foolish

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sardonic

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(nature) is bitterly scornful and more biting than a sarcastic temperament with its ill humor or a satiric mnature with its often witty creativeness

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vloubility

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windy talk, ample, empty, hinting of "hot air"

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supercilious

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(air) is disdainfully or scornfully aloof

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arrogant

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haughty, overbearingly proud

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misanthropic

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view of humankind is one of detestation rather than of merely pessimistic hopelssness.

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garrulous

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talkitive

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querulous

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likely to be ill natured and merely a complainer

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particular

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fussy about details

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insolent

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arrogantly rude and discourteous

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scrupulous

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person is very precise and discriminating, but more on ethical than on aesthetic or emotoinal grounds.

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quibbler or caviler

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grasps at trifles and is less serious or sincere than a captious person

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sarcastic

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has little love and much distrust for people and thus make cruel and cutting remarks.

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cynical

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scornfully distrustful

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squeamish

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unduly sensitive to what is unsavory

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satirical

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sees and ridicules the vices and follies of the world