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Mercurial
Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Trepidatious
Apprehensive or nervous
Anguish
Severe mental or physical pain or suffering. (noun)
Be extremely distressed about something. (verb)
Exhort
Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something
Purgatory
A place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
Reproach
Express to (someone) one's disapproval of or disappointment in their actions.
Sardonic
Cynical or mocking (grimly)
Acrimonious
Angry or bitter
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