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English S 1 Vocab
Semester 1 Vocabulary for Mrs. Brown's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affable | Easy-going; friendly |
| Amenable | Favorably disposed; willing to change |
| Amiable | Good-natured and likable |
| Apt | Suitable; appropriate |
| Assiduous | Steadily attentive; diligent |
| Benevolent | Characterized by or expressing good will or kindly feelings |
| Camaraderie | Friendly feeling and good will among comrades |
| Conscientious | Guided by one's own sense of right and wrong |
| Cordial | Warm and sincere; friendly |
| Decorous | Proper; marked by good taste |
| Diligent | Hard-working; perservering and pain-staking |
| Exemplar | One who is worthy of imitation; an ideal model |
| Gregarious | Social and outgoing; one who enjoys the company of others |
| Laudatory | Expressing great praise |
| Propriety | Appropriateness of behavior; the state of exhibiting proper etiquette |
| Prudent | Exercising good judgement and common sense |
| Sanguine | Optimistic; cheerfully confident |
| Abhor | To hate intensely |
| Diffident | Lacking confidence |
| Ebullience | Intense and joyful enthusiasm |
| Effusive | Gushy; highly emotional, especially in expressing gratitude or praise |
| Enervate | To weaken the strength or health of |
| Frenetic | Wildly excited or active |
| Impetuous | Characterized by sudden energy and emotion; impulsive and passionate |
| Implacable | Impossible to appease or satisfy |
| Listless | Indifferent; unwilling to act or move; lazy |
| Mercurial | Subject to rapid and extreme changes in mood |
| Rancorous | Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill will |