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Miss Frank Vocab 9.1
9th Grade Vocab Unit 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| benevolence | kindness; good will |
| exemplary | serving as a model to others |
| gentility | of good breeding; having good manners |
| decorum | proper public behavior |
| candid | honest; truthful; frank |
| feasible | possible; able to be done |
| elation | a feeling of great joy |
| avidity | desire to move forward |
| impunity | without fear of punishment |
| pun | root which means "to punish" |
| morale | feeling of confidence |
| preoccupy | to occupy the mind before anything else |
| punctilious | attentive to details |
| reputable | having a good name, a good reputation |
| solace | comfort in sorrow |
| veracity | adherence to the truth |
| wary | worry; cautious |
| ver | root meaning truth |
| bene | root meaning good |
| ity | suffix which changes a word from an adjective to a noun |