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U1 Vocab Test review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| PROACTIVE | Students who are _______ make a plan for their success and use tools to stay organized. |
| proactive | Acting in anticipation of the future problems, needs, or changes |
| OBSTACLE | Chase encounters many____ and difficulties that he must overcome after his near death experience. |
| obstacle | |
| COURAGE | |
| courage | |
| RESILIENCE | |
| resilience | |
| PREVAIL | |
| prevail | |
| WILLPOWER | |
| willpower | |
| ATTAIN | |
| attain | |
| TENACITY | The determination to continue what you are doing |
| tenacity | Turbo the snail demonstrated great tenacity in finishing the race against a racecar without his power of speed. |
| FORTITUDE | mental strength and courage that allows someone to face danger, pain, etc. |
| fortitude | Will the Resistance have the fortitude to risk their lives to stand up against the Nazi regime of terror? |
| HOLOCAUST | the systematic government killing of six million Jewish people and others by Nazi Germany during World War II |
| holocaust | Survivors of the _____ share their stories so that the voices of the victims make sure the world never repeats the same unforgivable murders. |
| GENOCIDE | The deliberate and systematic destruction of a religious, racial, national, or cultural group |
| genocide | Hitler and his Nazis shocked the world with their "Final Solution," which was the first publicly documented _____ in modern history. |
| DOGGED | Georg Duckwitz, and other members of the Resistance, was dogged in the pursuit of saving the Jewish people from the Nazis. |
| dogged | That enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| CONFLICT | A major difference that prevents agreement |
| conflict | For Georg Duckwitz and many members of the Resistance, Hitler’s “Final Solution” was in conflict with how they believed any person should be treated. |
| PERCEPTION | The way you think about or understand someone or something |
| perception | Your perception of the world is affected by the way you’ve been raised and the events you have experienced in life. |
| EMPOWERED | to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something |
| empowered | Frederick Douglass was empowered to change his life when he continued to learn to read in secret so that he could escape slavery. |
| EXPERIENCE | something personally encountered, undergone, or lived through |
| experience | Many professionals experience additional challenges, beyond their training and expertise, due to factors beyond their control. |
| CULTIVATE | to foster the growth of |
| cultivate | In order to cultivate your self-awareness, you need to ask yourself tough questions and make smart, responsible choices. |
| ENIGMA | something hard to understand or explain |
| enigma | Just how and why two people fall in love is an enigma that no scientist has been able to explain. |
| SAVVY | experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd |
| savvy | Frederick Douglass possessed tremendous savvy with words, and soon everyone truly understood the horrors of slavery. |
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