abstract not concrete aesthetic having to do with the appreciation of beauty alleviate to ease a pain or a burden ambivalent simultaneously

feeling opposing feelings; uncertain apathetic feeling or showing little emotion auspicious favorable; promising benevolent well-meaning; generous candor sincerity; openness cogent convincing; reasonable comprehensive broad or complete in scope or content contemporary current, modern; from the same time conviction a fixed or strong belief diligent marked by painstaking effort; hard-working dubious doubtful; of unlikely authenticity eclectic made up of a variety of sources or styles egregious conspicuously bad or offensive exculpate to free from guilt or blame florid flowery or elaborate in style gratuitous given freely; unearned; unwarranted hackneyed worn out through overuse; trite idealize to consider perfect impartial not in favor of one side or the other; unbiased imperious arrogantly domineering or overbearing inherent inborn; built-in innovative introducing something new

inveterate long established; deep-rooted; habitual laudatory giving praise maverick one who resists adherence to a group mollify to calm or soothe novel strikingly new or unusual obdurate stubborn; inflexible objectivity judgment uninfluenced by emotion obstinate stubbornly adhering to an opinion ornate elaborately decorated ostentatious describing a pretentious display paramount of chief concern or importance penitent expressing remorse for one's misdeeds pervasive dispersed throughout plausible seemingly valid or acceptable; credible profound having great depth or seriousness prosaic unimaginative; dull; ordinary quandary a state of uncertainty or perplexity rancorous hateful; marked by deep-seated ill will spurious not genuine; false; counterfeit stoic indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive superfluous extra; unnecessary tenuous having little substance or strength; unsure; weak timorous timid; fearful transitory short-lived; temporary vindicated freed from blame

significant/significance means important momentous means great or far-reaching consequence consequence means outcome or direct result contemporary/contemporaneous means current or present times perception means way of seeing perspective means point of view outcome means result derivative/derivation means not original, or secondary particular means specific