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Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive
Whoa, hello, assertiveness! How lovely to make your acquaintance.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
I've got an adjective that just fits you.
...interested in everything and nothing else
I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.
Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
I am enthusiastic.
I am endless.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.
The word should be thinkering.
Intimidated?"
His head shook once. "Intrigued."
"Irritated?"
His eyes investigated me again. It felt intrusive, definitely not cursory. "Impressed.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
Isobel's head popped up. "What does 'sagacious' mean?"
"Sagacious," he said, writing, "adjective describing someone in possession of acute mental faculties. Also describing one who might, in a bookstore, think to get up and locate an actual dictionary instead of asking a billion questions.
I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.
Pusillanimous. Talisman.
AMENABLE (AME'NABLE) adj.[amesnable, Fr. amener quelqu'un, in the French courts, signifies, to oblige one to appear to answer a charge exhibited against him.]Responsible; subject so as to be liable to enquiries or accounts.
insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
Couldn't inquisitiveness be called just real affection with a kind of squint in its eye?
Some affixes are wildly promiscuous.
Eagerly wanted to prove something
is one sign of lack of self-dependence.
Eager for bread and love.
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.
somethingological
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
I'm action-oriented.
Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
Be suspicious of the litigious.
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Obstreperous, 'huh," said Tad. "I see you've been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas."
"That is irrefragable," I told him solemnly.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.
I'm very pragmatic.
I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
I am a combative, inquisitive, argumentative person, and I will never allow anyone to change that.
Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
defiant, and her words have rough, girlish hope. The
Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.
Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking
I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
It's an attitude that has to do with curiosity, with wanting to know about things, wanting to be able to influence things, and wanting to be able to influence them in a way that's worthwhile
Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.
Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.
They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.
Speculator [10w]
A speculator's eyes light up alternately by greed and concupiscence.
unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many
the kind of person who in one moment could guess, with breathtaking coldness, at the innermost sorrow in your heart, and in the next moment turn and, with a cheery wave of farewell, march blithely through a plate-glass window, requiring twenty-two stitches in his cheek.
Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?
preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;
Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.
I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.
I'm a compulsive everything.
Unfailingly optimistic:
Take accessible to mean / acceptable, accommodating, openly servile.
I think like a detective.
vociferating optimism.
Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
Passionately desired, graciously received.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.
Unobtrusive. In no one's way.
One who hopes inordinately, impairs his deeds.
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")
responsible, reserved, conservative, grounded, perfectionist, analytical
this word needs to be reworded ==========
I am a very thorough person.
aborigine, angry, beautiful, fiery, fearless, remorseless and untouchable, overly
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
I have an unhealthy curiosity about other people's business.
Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.
Man is incurably curious.
Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...
But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
Egotistical. Worst of all, he is a tyrant. But look! she said, looking at him. Look
Strong belief in the bright future, always hiding fear of the past.
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.