optimist
A person who genuinely believes that everything will ultimately work out in a positive way.
reticent
Discreet, restrained and tight-lipped; uncommunicative.
benevolent
Inoffensive, generous, kind-hearted and compassionate.
aghast
Stricken with terror and taken aback with the shock of a horrific surprise.
wizened
Shriveled and wrinkled almost to the point of resembling an unwrapped mummy.
saturnine
Given to prolong periods of being down in the dumps; morose and disconsolate.
compunction
The slowly building crescendo of guilty feelings that ultimately lead to remose and the desire to confess and seek forgiveness.
opalescent
The exhibition of a milky array of various colors.
minx
A coquettish, coy and flirtatious woman
impugn
To call into the question or cast aspersions.
vivacity
An enthusiastically cheerful sort of gusto for live.
disparage
To criticize in a way that impugns the very character of the object of the critique.
veneer
The shiny outward appearance on the surface capable of concealing or masking a rotting beneath.
trudge
To traipse, lumber or plod along; a laborious manner of walking.
yonder
Somewhere off in the direction pointed to when this word is used to give vague directions on how to get somewhere specific.
apprise
A fomal mode of briefing, notifying or advising someone.
dusky
A twilightish sort of shadowy darkness reminiscent of the appearance of dusk.
effigy
A crudely-made replica of a person to be used for hanging or burning as a form of protest against that person or their actions.
