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An affable person is pleasant, friendly, and easy to talk to.
Amity is a peaceful friendship between two parties, particularly between two countries.
Someone who has a bilious personality is highly irritable and bad-tempered.
If you describe a person’s behavior or speech as brusque, you mean that they say or do things abruptly or too quickly in a somewhat rude and impolite way.
A clique is a group of people that spends a lot of time together and tends to be unfriendly towards people who are not part of the group.
To cloister someone is to remove and isolate them from the rest of the world.
If someone is complaisant, they are willing to please others and do what they want without complaining.
A congenial person, place, or environment is pleasant, friendly, and enjoyable.
People convene when they gather together or are called together by someone for a meeting.
A convivial atmosphere or occasion is friendly, pleasant, cheerful, and relaxed.
A dissident is someone who disagrees publicly with a government, especially in a country where this is not allowed.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
Someone who is effusive expresses happiness, pleasure, admiration, praise, etc., in an extremely enthusiastic way.
An enclave is a small area within a larger area of a city or country in which people of a different nationality or culture live.
A forlorn person is lonely because they have been abandoned; a forlorn home has been deserted.
A garrulous person talks a lot, especially about unimportant things.
If someone is impassive, they are not showing any emotion.
If you are incommunicado, you are out of touch, unable to be communicated with, or in an isolated situation.
An introvert is someone who primarily prefers being by themself instead of hanging out with others socially; nevertheless, they still enjoy spending time with friends.
An irascible person becomes angry very easily.
A person who is being laconic uses very few words to say something.
Someone who is loquacious talks too much.
Someone who is morose is unhappy, bad-tempered, and unwilling to talk very much.
A recluse is someone who chooses to live alone and deliberately avoids other people.
Someone who is reserved is quiet, self-controlled, and keeps their thoughts mostly to themselves.
People who are reticent are unwilling to share information, especially about themselves, their thoughts, or their feelings.
Someone who is saturnine is looking miserable and sad, sometimes in a threatening or unfriendly way.
Seclusion is the condition of being closed off or isolated from society.
A taciturn person is quiet or silent by nature.
A troglodyte is reclusive, severely lacking in social skills, and is out of step with current times.
A voluble person can speak easily with speech that naturally flows; voluble people also tend to be quite chatty.
Adj.
gregarious
gri-GAIR-ee-uhs
Context
The gregarious, outgoing musician loved to talk to his audience after a performance. He shook hands, laughed, met old friends, and generally behaved in a friendly, welcoming, and gregarious way. His social or gregarious nature was well-known and drew more people to hear the music. Music lovers admired the skill of his performance on stage, but they also enjoyed his kind, sociable, and gregarious welcome face to face.
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How might someone who is gregarious act at school?
They would sit with and talk to a large group of friends at lunch.
They would try to correctly answer every question in class.
They would have trouble staying on task and get in trouble often.
Greg, Gary, & Us We are such a gregarious group, Greg, Gary, and us.
Examples
He may be a blunt-spoken jurist who enjoys mingling with the Washington establishment, but Scalia likes the sheltered life of the court. A gregarious academic before he ascended to the bench, he believes deeply in the British common-law tradition that judges keep a low public profile.
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Newsweek
People who love sales often are gregarious and garrulous, but that gets in the way when they like to hear the sound of their own voice more than that of their customers'.
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USA Today
A gregarious person is highly social because he “has the nature” of “flocking” with others.
Word Theater
Finding Vivian Maier Street photographers need to be gregarious to find the best shots.
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