Personality Barbara Mackessy

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PersonalityBarbara Mackessy

• The visible aspects of ones character as it
  impresses others, distinctive characteristics of
  a person

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Adamant

• Utterly unyielding
• inflexible
• Will not change

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Adventurous

• Seeking an exciting and unusual experience
• Seeking an uncertain or risky undertaking

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Aggressive

• Vigorously energetic in the use of initiative
• Being daring
• Being forceful
• Hostile behavior

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Ambitious

• Requiring exceptional effort
• An earnest desire to achieve
• Want to get ahead

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Argumentative

• Given to arguments
• Given to disruptions
• Like to orally disagree
• Like to quarrel

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Arrogant

• Overbearing superior
• Overbearing self-importance
• Think you are better than others

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Artistic

• Showing skill in execution
• Good at art
• Creative

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Assertive

• Confidently aggressive
• Self-assured
• Frank but in a nice way

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Authoritative

• Having the sanction or weight of authority
• Accepted by most as being in charge
• Like being in charge of things or people

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Bashful

• Easily embarrassed
• Shy
• Do not want to be the center of attention

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Brash

• Impetuous
• Tactless
• Rash
• impudent

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Brassy

• Show offish
• Wanting to stand out

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Brave

• Possessing or exhibiting courage
• To meet or face courageously
• To defy and challenge
• Willing to face danger

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Calm

• Without rough emotion
• Tranquil
• Serene
• Freedom from disturbance
• Tranquility

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Capable

• Having ability
• Competent
• I can

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Carefree

• Without worry
• Who cares

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Caring

• Concern
• Serious attention
• Protective

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Clever

• Mentally bright
• Superficially skillful
• Witty
• Ingenious

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Compassionate

• Feeling sympathy for anothers misfortune
• Feeling sorry for others

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Concerned

• Interested
• Troubled
• Anxious
• Regarding

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Confident

• Full trust in oneself
• Reliance on oneself
• Certain of oneself
• Sure of oneself

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Conforming

• To act in accordance with the rules, standards,
  attitudes of a group
• To become similar in character
• To go along with the crowd

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Conspirator

• A plan to commit an unlawful or evil act
• To plan secretly to commit a crime

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Courteous

• Showing good manners
• Polite
• Respectful

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Creative

• Originality or thought
• Imaginative
• Having the power to create

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Crude

• Lacking finish, rough acting
• Lack of culture
• Vulgar
• No refinement

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Cruel

• Willfully causing pain or distressed to others
• Being mean on purpose

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Decisive

• Having the power to decide
• Displaying firmness
• Resolute
• Unquestionable
• Definite

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Dependable

• Worthy of trust
• Reliable
• People can count on you

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Determined

• Resolute
• Unwavering
• Decided
• Settled

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Disagreeable

• Contrary to ones taste or liking
• Offensive
• Unpleasant
• Grouchy
• Surly

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Disciplined

• Acting in accordance with the rules
• Behavior in accord with rules of conduct
• Under control

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Discourteous

• Not courteous
• Impolite
• Rude

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Distressed

• Acute anxiety, pain or sorrow
• Extreme misfortune
• To have pain, anxiety, sorrow or trouble

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Effervescent

• Showing enthusiasm
• Liveliness
• Full of life and energy

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Efficient

• Performing or functioning effectively with the
  least waste of time, effort or resources.
• Doing the most that you can without wasting

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Empathetic

• Identification with experience of the feelings or
  thought of others

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Energetic

• Possessing or exhibiting energy
• Vigorous activity
• Exertion of effort

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Extroverted

• An outgoing person
• More concerned with the physical and social
  environment than with ones self
• Love being with people

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Fair

• Free from dishonesty
• Free from bias and injustice
• Proper use of rules
• Believe in equality

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Flexible

• Susceptible of modification or change
• Adaptable
• Willing or disposed to yield

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Follower

• One that follows
• An attendant
• Does what someone else suggest

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Frank

• Direct
• Unreserved in expression
• Say it like it is

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Frantic

• Desperate
• Wild with emotion
• Frenzied

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Friendly

• Favorably disposed
• Not hostile
• Amicable
• Easy to understand

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Good Listener

• Actually listen to understand what another person
  is saying
• Stop talking long enough to listen

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Grouchy

• Sulky
• Complaining person
• Bad mood

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Happy

• Delighted
• Pleased
• Pleasant
• Showing joy

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Happy with self

• You like yourself the way you are
• You are satisfied with your character

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Haughty

• Snobbish
• Arrogant
• Disdainfully proud

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Helpful

• Giving help
• Providing what is necessary
• Being useful

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Honest

• Honorable in principles
• Honorable in actions and intentions
• Sincere
• Frank
• Truthful

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Honorable

• Having honest and integrity
• Having high respect
• Having high public esteem, glory
• Upright
• Worthy of honor
• Bringing honor

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Idealistic

• The pursuit of ones ideals
• To consider or represent as having qualities of
  ideal perfection

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Imaginative

• Imagining
• Ability to form mental images of things never
  experienced
• Creativity
• Resourcefulness

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Immature

• Not yet mature
• Emotionally undeveloped
• Childish

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Impolite

• Lack of manners
• Rude
• Disrespectful
• Not polite

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Independent

• Not influenced or controlled by others
• Not relying on another for aid or support
• Not subject to anothers authority

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Innovative

• To introduce something new
• Creative
• Original

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Intelligent

• Having good understanding
• High mental capacity
• Very smart

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Introverted

• A shy person
• Concerned primarily with inner thoughts and
  feeling rather than being with other people
• Uncomfortable in a large crowd

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Irresponsible

• Lack the sense of responsibility
• Not capable of responsibility
• Others can not count on you

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Kind

• Gentle
• Considerate
• Benevolent
• Caring

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Knowledgeable

• Possessing or exhibiting knowledge
• Familiar, understanding
• Information gained by studying

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Leader

• To show the way for others
• To influence or induce
• To act as a guide

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Liar

• Dishonest
• A person why tells lies

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Liberal

• Favoring progress or reform
• Free from prejudice
• Tolerant
• Not strict
• A person with liberal principals or views

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Lively

• Full of life or energy
• Vigorous
• Animated
• Sprightly
• Stirring or exciting
• Strong or keep
• Rebounding quickly

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Logical

• Reasonable
• To be expected
• According to the laws of logic using sound
  judgment
• Using connection between facts that seem
  reasonable

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Loner

• A person who is or prefers to be alone
• Apart from others
• By oneself

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Loving

• Intense personal attachment or affection
• Strong enthusiasm or liking
• To have affection for
• Passionate and tender

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Loyal

• Faithful to ones allegiance
• Faithful to ones oath or obligations
• Characterized by faithfulness

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Mature

• Complete in natural growth and development
• Grownup acting

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Modest

• Unpretentious
• Having or showing regard for the decencies of
  behavior, speech and dress
• Having or showing moderate estimate of oneself

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Nervous

• Uneasy
• Fearful
• Timid
• Highly excitable or agitated

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Nuisance

• An annoying person
• Causing disturbance
• A pain

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Objective

• Not influenced by personal feelings
• Existing with regard to thought or imagination
• A purpose or goal

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Observant

• Quick to perceive
• Alert
• Regarding attentively
• Careful in observing the laws

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Obstinate

• Stubbornly adhering to a purpose or opinion
• Not easily treated
• Stubborn

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Offensive

• Causing resentful displeasure
• Unpleasant or disagreeable
• Repugnant to the moral sense
• The position or attitude of aggression or attack

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Optimistic

• A tendency to look at the more favorable side of
  events or conditions
• The belief that good will ultimately triumph over
  evil.
• Looking on the bright side of things

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Organized

• Systematic order
• Keeping things in order

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Original

• Belonging to the beginning of something
• Undertaken or presented for the first time
• The first

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Passive

• Submitting without resistance
• Giving into
• Not voicing your opinion

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Patient

• Tolerating delay
• Tolerating provocation
• Tolerating annoyance
• Do not complain
• Persevering or diligent

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Perceptive

• Having or showing keenness of perception
• Intuitive recognition or appreciative
• Having insight

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Persistent

• To continue steadily in some purpose or course of
  action in spite of opposition
• To endure tenaciously
• To be insistent in a request or question

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Persuasive

• Able to persuade
• To prevail on a person to do something
• Advising or urging
• To induce to believe
• To convince

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Pesky

• Annoying
• Troublesome
• A pain

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Pessimistic

• The tendency to see only what is gloomy
• To anticipate the the worst
• The belief that the evil in the world outweigh
  any goodness
• Looking at the dark or bad side of things

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Petty

• Of little or no importance
• Of lesser value or merit
• Showing meanness of spirit
• Letting the little things get to you

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Pleasant

• Giving pleasure
• Agreeable
• Enjoyable
• Having a pleasing manner

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Precise

• Definitely or strictly stated, defined or fixed
• Exact
• Rigidly particular

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Presumptuous

• Impertinently bold
• Something presumed
• Assumption

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Pretentious

• Making an exaggerated outward show
• The assumption of dignity, importance
• Artistic distinction

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Principled

• Guiding sense of the requirements of right
  conduct
• Using the rules of conduct
• Fundamental law

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Proud

• Feeling satisfaction over something regarded as
  creditable to oneself
• Having or showing self-esteem
• Giving a sense of pride
• Highly honorable or creditable

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Pushy

• Obnoxiously self-assertive
• Trying to get your way

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Questioning

• To challenge
• To dispute
• To ask questions of
• Interrogate

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Rash

• Reckless decisions
• Ill-considered haste
• Not thought through

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Realistic

• The tendency to see things are they really are
• See the good and bad

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Reasonable

• In accordance with reason
• Logical
• Not excessive
• Moderate
• Rational

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Rebellious

• Defying authority
• Resisting authority
• Not following the rules

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Reckless

• Heedless of danger
• Rash
• Careless
• Heedless of consequences

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Reflective

• To ponder
• To meditate
• To think about afterwards

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Relaxed

• To make or become less tense
• To make or become less strict
• To relieve or find relief from ones inhibitions

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Reliable

• Capable of being relied upon
• Dependable

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Reserved

• Kept, held for future use
• Set apart
• Self-restrained

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Respectful

• Proper courtesy
• A formal expression of esteem or deference
• Using manners

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Responsible

• Accountable
• Involving duties and obligations
• Having capacity to make moral decisions
• Reliable
• Dependable

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Restless

• Marked by the inability to remain at rest
• Unquiet
• Uneasy
• Without rest

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Rude

• Discourteous
• Impolite
• Lacking culture
• Crude in behavior
• Uncouth
• Not gentle
• Harsh

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Scientific

• Systematically arranged and showing the operation
• Knowledge from the material world gained through
  observation and experimentation

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Self-Confidence

• Faith in ones own self
• Faith in ones own judgment
• I believe I can

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Self-Disciplined

• Discipline over ones self
• Controlling ones self for personal improvement

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Self-Starter

• A person who shows initiative
• Doing things without being told
• Motivate yourself

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Sense of Humor

• Dont take things to seriously
• Laugh things off

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Sensitive

• Responsive to the feelings of others
• Easily hurt or offended
• Your feelings get hurt easily

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Serious

• Requiring deep thought
• Earnest
• Important or significant
• Giving cause for apprehension critical or
  threatening

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Sharing

• To use, participate in or receive jointly
• Giving
• Allotted to others

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Shy

• Bashful
• Easily frightened
• Timid
• Distrustful
• Wary

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Sociable

• Inclined to enjoy the company of others
• Companionable
• Like being with other people

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Spontaneous

• Coming from natural impulse or tendency
• Arising from internal forces or causes
• Quick decisions without thinking

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Stable

• Not likely to give way
• Steady
• Firmly established
• Enduring
• Not wavering in purpose
• Steadfast
• Mentally sound

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Strong

• Mentally or morally powerful
• Powerful in influence
• Authority
• Able to resist strain
• Not weak,
• Energetic, vigorous

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Stubborn

• Unreasonable
• Unyielding
• Unyielding
• Fixed as in purpose

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Submissive

• To give over
• To yield to authority
• To yield oneself to to the power of another

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Sympathetic

• In harmony with ones taste, mood or disposition
• Feel sorry for someone

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Tactful

• The ability to deal with a difficult situation
• Dealing with delicate situations

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Tactless

• Can not deal with delicate situations
• Can not deal with difficult situations

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Temperamental

• The combination of mental and emotional traits of
  a person
• Personal nature that is unusually emotional
• Unpredictable

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Tenacious

• Holding fast
• Highly retentive
• Persistent or stubborn

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Thoughtful

• Showing consideration for others
• Showing careful thought
• Occupied with thought

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Thoughtless

• Lacking in consideration for others
• Showing lack of thought
• Heedless

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Tolerant

• Fair and permissive attitude toward those whos
  race, religion, beliefs etc., differ from ones
  own
• The capacity to endure something
• To put up with over and over

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Troublesome

• Inconvenience or extra effort
• Mental or emotional distress
• A pain to someone

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Trustworthy

• Deserving of trust of confidence
• Rely on for your integrity
• Keep a commitment with confidence

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Uncertain

• Not precisely known
• Not confident
• Not clearly determined
• Variable
• Unstable

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Unpredictable

• Not predictable
• Do not know what to expect next

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Warm

• Friendly
• Affectionate
• Sympathetic
• Hearty

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Worried

• To feel uneasy
• To feel anxious
• To disturb with annoyances
• Uneasiness or anxiety

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Homework

• Pick out your 10 best characteristics and pick
  out your worst characteristic.
• Give the list to one of your parents and have
  them to pick out what they think if your 10 best
  characteristic and you worst one. Your parent is
  to sign their list.
• You are to make a list of jobs that match at
  least 8 of your 10 characteristics.
• Bring all this back to class the following day.