placid - peaceful
amiable - friendly
presumptuous - overconfident
jarred - conflicted (juxtaposition)
dubiously - doubtfully
avaricious - mean or greedy
sinister - threatening or dark
apathy - lack of interest
condole - express empathy or grieve with
credulity - tendency to believe easily
clement - mild/not too hot
ambivalent - contradictory ways or feelings
ethos - guiding beliefs
chockablock - full or tightly packed
rue - to feel remorse or regret
deter - to discourage
lucid - clear and easy to understand/think