• exaltation (being carried away by overwhelming emotion)
• exhilaration (lively and cheerful joy)

• benevolent (kind, generous)
• benign (kind, not dangerous to health)
• detrimental (harmful)
• innocuous (not harmful)
• malevolent (wishing evil to others)
• malignant (dangerous to health)

• capricious (impulsive and unpredictable)
• impetuous (with undue haste and lack of thought)
• insolent & impudent & impertinent (casually disrespectful, improperly forward or bold)
• petulant (easily irritated/annoyed)

• tacit (implied by or inferred from actions or statements)
• taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)
• terse & laconic (brief and to the point)

• temerity (fearless daring)
• tenacity (persistent determination)

• ardent (characterized by intense emotion)
• fervor (feelings of great warmth and intensity)
• furor (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal)

• perfunctory (hasty, not thorough, part of a routine)
• rudimentary (in the earliest stages of development)

• unwonted (unusual)
• wanton (excessive, uncontrolled, even cruel)
• wont (habit)

• sanguine (cheerful, optimistic)
• saturnine (gloomy, bitter)

• pliable (bendable but not breakable)
• pliant (capable of being shaped or influenced, bendable)
• supple & lithe (moving and bending with ease)

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