vocabulary

• equanimous 


  (adj) calm and in control of emotions
• ineffable 


  (adj) too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words
• petulant 


  (adj) easily annoyed or irritated, especially when things don’t go your way
• ameliorate 


  (v) to make a bad situation better
• reticence 


  (n) being quiet and not sharing thoughts easily
• pernicious

  (adj) extremely destructive or harmful
• perspicacious 


  (adj) able to judge quickly and correctly about what people and situation are really like
• meretricious 


  (adj) attractive on the outside but having in reality no value or substance
• latitudinarian 


  (n) a person who is open-minded and tolerant
• importunate 


  very persistent in request or demand
• perfidious 


  (adj) disloyal or unfaithful
• disconsolate 


  (adj)deeply unhappy and without hope
• halcyon 


  (adj) tranquil, joyful and successful
• indelible 


  (adj) impossible to erase or forget
• equanimity 


  (n) composure, steadiness of mind under stress
• ambivalent 


  (adj) having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
• pensive 


  (adj) engaged in deep, often melancholy, thought