cogent, compact, concise, crisp, curt, down to brass tacks, effective, epigrammatic, expressive, honed, laconic, meaningful, meaty, pointed, short, short-and-sweet, significant, succinct, terse, trenchant
Slunk, crawled, or possibly whickered.
style, category
'Strange' and 'odd'.
fondness, accessory
Weaken and unnerve