harsh or bitter feelings or words

• Acrimony
• Retribution
• Prudent
• Intrepid
• Impunity

to hint at or refer to something without saying it directly

• Allude
• Shrewd
• Rancor
• Irrelevant
• Instigate

something said or done to gently persuade or flatter

• Blandishment
• Solemn
• Recompense
• Legitimate
• Intrepid

honest and straightforward

• Candid
• Subtle
• Relent
• Malicious
• Irrelevant

able to make choices quickly and confidently

• Decisive
• Succumb
• Retribution
• Mar
• Legitimate

to keep someone from leaving or to hold them back

• Detain
• Throng
• Shrewd
• Mock
• Malicious

to come up with or plan something carefully

• Devise
• Tribulation
• Solemn
• Perish
• Mar

working hard and carefully

• Diligent
• Acrimony
• Subtle
• Piteous
• Mock

dishonesty or trickery by hiding the truth.

• Duplicity
• Allude
• Succumb
• Placate
• Perish

to avoid or escape from something or someone

• Elude
• Blandishment
• Throng
• Preclude
• Piteous