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• Propitiate


  Appease; make things right with someone
• Protean


  Change frequently
• Pugnacious


  Aggressive; eager or quick to argue
• Pulchritude


  Beauty
• Pundit


  Professional Commentator
• Quiescent

  Quiet; inactive
• Quixotic


  Foolishly impractical
• Raconteur


  Skilled storyteller
• Rancorous


  Unpleasant, hateful
• Recalcitrant


  Stubborn; obstinately uncooperative attitude
• Redolent


  Suggestive, evocative
• Renegade


  Disloyal person
• Remunerate


  compensate
• Reprieve


  Cancel, postpone punishment
• Reproach


  Criticize
• Reprobate


  Unprincipled
• Reticent


  Reserved, introverted
• Retrenchment


  Reduction of costs
• Sagacity


  Wisdom; making good judgements
• Sanguine

  Optimistic
• Sardonic


  Mocking, sarcastic.
• Scintillating


  Shining; brilliantly.
• Scrupulous


  Great attention to detail.
• Sinecure


  Easy job.
• Solicitous


  Showing concern.
• Sophistry


  Use of fallacious argument.
• Spate


  Series, succession, run, cluster.
• Squalid


  Run-down; extremely dirty.
• Stalwart


  Loyal, reliable.
• Succinct


  Concise.
• Supercilious


  Arrogant, haughty; thinks one is superior
• Supposition


  Uncertain belief without proof
• Surfeit


  Surplus; excessive amount
• Surly


  Unfriendly
• Surreptitious


  Secret
• Sycophant


  One who flatters lavishly; acts obsequiously
• Temerity


  Excessive confidence, boldness; audacity
• Tepid


  Lukewarm
• Terse


  Concise; brief; to the point
• Travail


  Painful, laborious effort