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Mercurial
Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Assuage
Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense, satisfy (an appetite or desire)
Melancholy
A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Pejorative
Negative, expressing contempt or disapproval.
Idiosyncratic
Peculiar or individual.
Perspicacious
Perceptive, aware, sharp, keen
Enumeration
Listing things
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Prescient
Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place
Penchant
A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something, strong attraction/liking, proclivity
Ambivilance
Indecision; experiencing contradictory emotions
Morose
Having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable
Magnanimous
Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person
Nebulous
In the form of a cloud or haze, (of a concept) vague or ill-defined.
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.
Indignant
Upset, offended
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