CHARACTER, LEADERSHIP VOCABULARY WORD LIST (316)

A
)

Ability, Above-board, Accepting, Accommodating, Acknowledgment, Active, Altruism, Ambi

Aspiration, Assertive, Asset, Attentive, Attitude

B
)

Behavior, Benevolent, Bond, Brave

C
)

CARING, Character, Charisma, Charity, Charm, Cheerful, CITIZENSHIP, Civility, Clean, Cohe
Communicative, Community, Compassion, Compliments, Compromising, Concern, Confiden
Constant, Content, Control, Cooperation, COOPERATIVE, Cordiality, Courage, COURAGEOUS

D
)

Decent, Deferential, Dependable, Desire, Determination, Devoted, Dignity, Diligent, Diplom

Dynamic, Dynamism

E
)

Earnest, Empathetic, EMPATHY, Encouragement, Endurance, Energetic, Enthusiastic, Equali

Evaluate, Excellence, Expectant, Experience, Extrovert

F
)

FAIRNESS, Faith, Faithful, Feeling, Flexible, Focus, Forgiving, Forte, Fortitude, Friendship

G
)

Generosity, Genial, Genteel, Gentle, Genuine, Gift, Goodness, Grace, Gracious, Gratitude, G

H
)

Happy, Hard work, Harmonious, Healing, Health, Helpfulness, HONESTY, Honor, Honorable,

I
)

Idealistic, Imaginative, Impartiality, Industrious, Ingenuous, Innocence, Innocent, Innovative

Introvert, Intuitive, Inventive, Investigative

J
)

Jocular, Jocund, Jolly, Jovial, Joyful, Jubilant, Judgment, Just

K
)

Kind, KINDNESS, Kindred, Kinship

L
)

Laughter, Leadership, Legitimacy, Lenient, Liberal, Listener, Loving, LOYALTY

M
)

Manners, Mastery, Merciful, Meritorious, Meticulous, Missionary, Moderate, Modesty, Mood

N
)

Naive, Neatness, Needy, Negative, Nice, Noble

O
)

Obedience, Observant, Open, Open-minded, Opportunist, Optimism, Orderly, Oriented, Ou

P
)

PATIENCE, Patient, Patriot, Peaceful, Peacemaker, Perceptive, Perseverance, Persistence, Pe

Polite, Popular, Potential, Powerful, Praise, Pressure, Principled, Priorities, Prolific, Promptne

Q
)

Quality, Quick, Quiescent, Quintessential

R
)

Rational, Reasonable, Recognition, Record, Refined, Reflective, Regard, RELIANCE, Remorse

RESPECT, Respectful, RESPONSIBILITY, Responsible, Responsive, Restraint, Reverent, Right

S
)

Sagacious, Sage, Samaritan, Self-control, Self-esteem, Selflessness, Sensible, Sensitive, Sha

Special, Speculation, Sportsmanship, Staunchness, Steadfast, Success, Successful, Support

T
)

Tactful, Talent, Teamwork, Temperament, Temperate, Tenacious, Tendency, Tender, Thankfu

Tone, Trait, Tranquil, TRUSTWORTHY, Truthful

U
)

Ultimate, Understanding, Unique, United, Unity, Upright, Upstanding

V
)

Values, Veracious, Veracity, Versatile, Vigilant, Vigorous, Virtuous, Visible, Vision, Vivacious

W
)

Warm, Watchful, Welcoming, Wild, Willingness, Winning, Winsome, Wisdom, Wise, Worker,

X
)
Y
)

Yearning, Yielding, Yourself

Z
)

Zeal, Zealous, Zest

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CHARACTER traits to AVOID word list : (132)

a-abusive, addictive, aggressive, antagonistic, apathetic, arrogant,
b-bias, blas, boorish, braggart, bully,
c-callow, captious, cheat, churlish, cold, compulsive, contemptible, critical, covetous, crude, culp
d-demeaning, devious, dictatorial, disdainful, dishonesty, dishonorable, disregard, disrespectful,
e-egoist, egotism, elitist, explosive, extravagant,
f-failure, falseness, fanatic, favoritism, fervid, frailty,
g-glib, gossip, grouchy, guilty,
h-hard-hearted, heedless, hostile,
i-ignoble, ignorant, ill-tempered, impetuous, impolite, improper, imprudent, impudent, indecent,
intolerant, irascible, irresponsible,
j-jaundiced, jealousy, juvenile,
k-,
l-loathsome,
m-malevolent, malicious, manipulative, meddler, mistrustful,
n-nefarious, neglectful, negligent, neurotic, notorious, nuisance,
o-obnoxious, obsequious, opinionated, oppressive, out-of-line, outrageous,
p-partial, petulant, prejudicial, prideful, preposterous, pretentious,
q-quarrelsome, querulous, quibbler, quirky,
r-rancorous, reckless, repugnance, reticent, rude, ruthless,
s-scornful, selfish, sour, stern, sullen, surly, suspicious,
t-testy, thoughtless, treacherous,
u-uncivil, uncouth, unethical, unfair, unmannerly, unrefined, unsavory, unworthy,
v-vicious, vile, villainous, volatile,
w-wary, waspish, wicked, wishy-washy,
x-,
y-yelling,
z-zealot,
John Wooden: Pyramid of Success!
Faith, Patience, Fight, Integrity, Competitive greatness, Resourcefulness,
Poise, Confidence, Reliability, Adaptability,
Condition, Skill, Team Spirit,
Honesty, Ambition, Self-control, Alertness, Initiative, Intentness,
Sincerity, Industriousness, Friendship, Loyalty,
Cooperation, Enthusiasm
What makes Character qualities?
1. Give/make a gift for someone just because...

2. Remember to say, I love you.

3. Donate your time to volunteer
4. Listen carefully to others
5. Visit a convalescent/nursing or retirement home
6. Email or write to a friend/relative just to say, hello!
7. Give blood
8. Smile before asking someone to do something
9. Remember to say, thank you
10. Participate in donations to charities
11. Hug a friend just because...
12. Observe and respect laws
13. Remind a friend not to drink and drive
14. Call home
15. Respect the Earth
16. Pray for others
17. Do not smoke
18. Encourage others...
19. Recycle products at home and at work
20. If you borrow something, return it

Personality Adjectives

Given the individual natures of human beings, it's no wonder the English
language includes so many personality adjectives. You might not notice it, but
people use adjectives to describe each other more than they describe anything
else. Personality, the most important thing about a person, has some incredibly
fun words to describe it.
Here are some of the most entertainingly interesting personality adjectives to
help you better describe the people you know.

Personality Adjectives to Describe your Friends

It's great to expand your vocabulary to more accurately or more creatively
describe the people you love most Convivial:

Everyone knows someone who is so full of life that he fills others with
zest. Convivial means "with life," so it makes sense that friendly people are
called convivial. They make you happy to be alive.
Example:
Al's Halloween parties are always the best because his convivial personality
puts everyone in a festive spirit.
Amicable:
Friendly or apparently good-willed people are called amicable. All of your
friends could be described by this personality adjective, or at least they should.
Example:
Sam is always smiling and complimenting folks, what an amicable fellow!
Similarly, amiable, literally meaning loveable, is a wonderful way to describe a
friend or nice person.
Example:
Mary, the amiable lady that she is, always pets stray cats and says hello to
everyone she sees in town.
Someone like Mary can also be described as gregarious. A gregarious person
enjoys speaking with people and finds herself energized around large groups of
people.
Example:
I wish I were as gregarious as Mary is; she ends up talking with everyone at the
party.
To describe your friend's gentle side, you can call him affable. It means your
friend is kind.
Example:
Even when Joe's in a rush to work, he stays affable, never raising his temper or
his voice at the Amtrak personnel.

Describing Enemies
Sometimes describing your enemies with intelligence and wit is difficult. The
times that negative feelings demand description aren't usually conducive to
accurate use of vocabulary. Keep these few personality adjectives in mind the
next time you have to appear calm and collected when dealing with a difficult
person. You might get the upper linguistic hand.
Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol pinches every penny. That component of
his personality, more than any other, has demonized for generations of readers.
People like Scrooge are called parsimonious. Parsimonious people are stingy

of every petty thing, they horde and refuse to share despite being the position
to do so.
Example: John just bought a Bentley but refused to loan me a
dollar, parsimonious jerk!
Nonchalant: Someone who is nonchalant is unconcerned or too cool to care.
Describing someone as nonchalant is saying that he lacks all the warmth and
enthusiasm normally attributed to a member of the human race.
Example:
John doesn't know how many homes he has; no wonder he's nonchalant about
poverty.
Obtuse: Obtuse people are those who are dull, negligent, or just bored with
life. They bore you because they themselves are so bored. They are annoyingly
slow to understand even the simplest of ideas.
Example:
Chad writes poetry that puts you to sleep; his obtuse view of life tires even the
most ardent lovers of verse.
Abecedarian: It might not always be grounds for enemy making, but calling
someone abecedarian is certainly useful. Someone who is abecedarian is
elementary, a beginner. Temporarily, everyone can be described
as abecedarian, e.g., in a new job, but not perpetually. Literally, it means
someone who is learning his or her A, B, C's.
Example:
Sarah is unfit to lead; though charming, she's inexperienced and abecedarian.
Truculent: A truculent person is a worthy adversary because he is fierce,
ferocious, and cruel. You could just say cruel, but that would be obtuse and
betray a lack of good words. The only thing worse than truculence is a lack of
good words, well that and being pusillanimous.
Example: Truculent old Richard actually cussed at a colleague in front of a
hundred other coworkers.
Pusillanimous: Someone who is pusillanimous lacks courage. It's much
stronger than timid because it means weak spirit or mind. Latin suggests here
that the weaker the mind, the more fearful a person is.
Example: In a pusillanimous move, George pardoned a criminal for fear of
what he might say if left in prison.
If someone is parsimonious, truculent, and pusillanimous, one might call
that person Machiavellian. Machiavelli was a Florentine renaissance writer who
penned The Prince, a book that detailed the most underhanded, scheming way
to rule a country. The book outlined the worst characteristics of humanity and
suggested that behaving in such a way was the only effective form of

leadership. Almost 500 years later, much controversy still surrounds this work.
However, the English language has adopted Nicclo Machiavelli's name as the
word describing all that is deplorable in a personality.
Example: Carl lies, slanders, cheats, and steals; his "playbook" might be the
most Machiavellian thing the world has ever known.

Creativity of New Words