Bombast (Bombastic)
Pompous; high sounding language w/ meaning, used to impress people
Convoluted
Extremely complex or difficult to follow
Magnanimous (Magnanimity)
Very generous or forgiving
Munificence (Munificent)
very generous or more generous than is necessary
Pragmatic
dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
Reticent (Reticence)
Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily
Altruistic (Altruism)
unselfishly generous; distinterested in self-concern for the well-being of others
Astute
Having an ability to assess situations or people and use them to one's advantage
Circumspect
Wary and unwilling to take risks
Circumvent
To overcome in a clever and surreptitious way
Commonplace
Ordinary
Complacent (Complacency)
Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction with one's achievements
Compunction
A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that follows the doing of something wrong
Conjecture
An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information
Convention (conventional)
Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed
Debilitating
Making someone weak or infirm
Delude
Deceive; fool
Dilettante
A person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge
Disingenuous
Not candid or sincere
Dogmatic
Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true
Disparage (Disparaging)
To regard of as little worth
Edifying (Edified)
To instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually
Enigma (Enigmatic)
A person, place or thing that is puzzling, mysterious or difficult to understand
Expedite (expeditious)
To make an action or process happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly
Ineffable
To great or extreme to be expressed in words
Innocuous
Not harmful or offensive
Inscrutable
Impossible to understand or interpret; abstruse
Jocular (Jocularity)
Humorous or playful; droll
Laud (Laudatory; Lauded)
To praise highly, especially in a public context; extol; hail; applaud
Mercurial
Subject to unpredictable changes in mood; capricious; volatile
Mitigate
Make less severe or painful
Mollify (Mollification)
To appease the anxiety or anger of someone
Obfuscate
To render unclear, obscure or unintelligible
Objective (Objectivity)
Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts; actual
Precocious
Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual; mature; gifted; talented
Prescriptive
Dictatorial; authoritarian
Proliferate (Proliferation)
To increase rapidly in numbers; multiply
Resilient
Flexible; Able to recoil or reflex after bending, stretching or being compressed
Succinct
Briefly and clearly expressed; concise
Tacit (Taciturn)
Implied or understood without being spoken
Verbose
Used or expressed in more words than necessary
Versatile (Versatility)
Able to adapt to many different functions or activities
Abate
To lessen, remove or reduce
Acclaim
To praise enthusiastically and publicly
Alacrity
Brisk or cheerful readiness
Avuncular
Of or relating to an uncle
Banal (Banality)
Boring; trite; cliche
Beguiled
Charmed or enchanted, sometimes in the deceitful way
Belabor
To argue or elaborate; dwell on
Belied
Failed to give a true notion of something; disguise; contradict
Bereft (Bereavement)
lacking or deprived of something, especially in a nonmaterial asset
Callous
Having or showing an insensitive or cruel disregard for others; unfeeling; cold-hearted
Callow (Callowness)
Inexperienced; immature
Cantankerous
Bad-tempered; argumentative; uncooperative
Cathartic
Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis
Charlatan
A fraud
Chicanery
The use of trickery to achieve a financial, political or legal purpose
Clandestine
Kept secret or done secretively