Qualified
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position. Restricted or limited by conditions.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
Example sentence: If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
Tempered
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To moderate or control.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of one's disposition.Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.Of something moderated or balanced by other considerations.Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Example sentence: Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.