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Mercurial

Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

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Trepidatious

Apprehensive or nervous

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Anguish

Severe mental or physical pain or suffering. (noun)

Be extremely distressed about something. (verb)

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Exhort

Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something

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Purgatory

A place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.

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Reproach

Express to (someone) one's disapproval of or disappointment in their actions.

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Sardonic

Cynical or mocking (grimly)

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Acrimonious

Angry or bitter

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Assuage

Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense, satisfy (an appetite or desire)

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Melancholy

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

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Pejorative

Negative, expressing contempt or disapproval.

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Idiosyncratic

Peculiar or individual.

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Perspicacious

Perceptive, aware, sharp, keen

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Enumeration

Listing things

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Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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Prescient

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Penchant

A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something, strong attraction/liking, proclivity

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Ambivilance

Indecision; experiencing contradictory emotions

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Morose

Having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable

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Magnanimous

Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person

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Nebulous

In the form of a cloud or haze, (of a concept) vague or ill-defined.

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Dramatic irony

A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character’s words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

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Indignant

Upset, offended