adj. mercenary

deserving blame; guilty

having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness; stylish; merry

working or done for payment only; hired for service

frightened; quivering

adj. apprehensive

dead; vanished; gone

very short-lived; lasting only a short time; transitory

fearful; aware; conscious; worried; concerned

arrogant; pushy; self-assertive

adj. discrete

separate; individual

entertaining; distracting; deflecting; amusing

sounding jarring; discordant

happening accidentally; by chance

adj. bellicose

materially or practically useful; applicable

burdensome and clumsy; bulky; unwieldy

quarrelsome; warlike

objectionable; may be protested

adj. murky

stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; stiff-necked

worthy of belief; trustworthy; reliable; dependable

dark; cloudy; gloomy

taking the place of another; felt, received or done in place of another; indirect

adj. tangible

appropriate; fitting

willfully bent on doing the wrong thing; distorted; deviant

real; actual; substantial

gripping and moving the feelings powerfully; piercing; biting

adj. itinerant

traveling about; wandering

having a wide knowledge acquired through reading; learned; knowledgeable; educated

happening accidentally; by chance

calm; peaceful; quiet

adj. truculent

sparing in use of food or drinks; satisfied with little; moderate

fierce; savage; cruel; destructive; harsh; barbaric

unpredictable; irregular; unsettled

spontaneous; impromptu; improvised

adj. ubiquitous

flimsy and cheap; shabby; cheap

moody; despondent; bitter; irritable

not allowing anything to pass through; unaffected; susceptible to harm or injury; impossible to influence

omnipresent; present everywhere

adj. sporadic

opposed; contrary

rarely occurring or appearing; intermittent; occasional; irregular; infrequent

likely to happen without delay; forthcoming; impending

barring future action; that cannot be denied, changed, etc.; aggressive