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An assiduous person works hard to ensure that something is done properly and completely.

Someone who is capricious changes their mind repeatedly or behaves in unexpected ways; a capricious series of events follows no predictable pattern.

When someone is conscientious in performing a task, they do it in a thorough and careful fashion to make sure that it is completely done.

Something that is desultory is done in a way that is unplanned, disorganized, and without direction.

When you are diligent in completing a task, you work hard or tirelessly at it until it is complete.

When you create a diversion, you cause someone to turn aside momentarily from what they are doing by distracting them.

Efficacy is the ability or power to produce an expected effect or result.

Someone who is exacting expects others to work very hard and carefully.

Someone who is feckless is incompetent and lacks the determination or skill to achieve much of anything at all in life.

Fortitude is the determination or lasting courage to endure hardship or difficulty over an extended period of time.

Someone who is impetuous does things quickly and rashly without thinking carefully first.

An impromptu speech is unplanned or spontaneous—it has not been practiced in any way beforehand.

When someone improvises, they make something up at once because an unexpected situation has arisen.

Someone who is impulsive tends to do things without thinking about them ahead of time; therefore, their actions can be unpredictable.

Something that is incessant continues on for a long time without stopping.

If someone is indefatigable, they never show signs of getting tired.

Something that happens on an intermittent basis happens in irregular intervals, stopping and starting at unpredictable times.

Intractable problems, situations, or people are very difficult or impossible to deal with.

An inveterate person is always doing a particular thing, especially something questionable—and they are not likely to stop doing it.

Someone who is irresolute is unable to decide what to do.

Someone is considered meticulous when they act with careful attention to detail.

A negligent person does not complete what they say they will do; they are careless and not attentive to their work.

An obstinate person refuses to change their mind, even when other people think they are being highly unreasonable.

If someone has pluck, they have determination and courage.

When you procrastinate, you put off or delay doing something—usually because it is something unpleasant that you’d rather not do.

If someone watches or listens to something with rapt attention, they are so involved with it that they do not notice anything else.

Refractory people deliberately don’t obey someone in authority and so are difficult to deal with or control.

A feeling of resignation is one of accepting something that you really don’t want to do.

Someone who is sedulous works hard and performs tasks very carefully and thoroughly, not stopping their work until it is completely accomplished.

If you are steadfast, you have a firm belief in your actions or opinions and refuse to give up or change them because you are certain that you are doing the right thing.

A tenacious person does not quit until they finish what they’ve started.

If you are unflagging while doing a task, you are untiring when working upon it and do not stop until it is finished.

If you are unrelenting in your desire to do something, you stop at nothing until you’ve done it.

A thing or person that is unremitting is persistent and enduring in what is being done.

When someone vacillates, they go back and forth about a choice or opinion, unable to make a firm decision.

If you waver, you cannot decide between two things because you have serious doubts about which choice is better.