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Miss Frank Vocab 9.1
9th Grade Vocab Unit 1
Term | Definition |
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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 |