Wednesday, October 7, 2015

English 10

Everyone's paragraph on whether "The Doll's House" is optimistic or pessimistic is due on Thursday. Your ten new vocabulary words for the week are the same in all my classes:

Innocuous -- harmless
Trepidation -- fearfulness; anxiety
Nonchalant -- unconcerned; elegantly casual
Prosaic--lacking imagination; ordinary
Malevolent -- evil
Benevolent -- kindly; good
Amoral -- lacking a sense of morality (lacking a sense of right and wrong)
Vex -- to frustrate; to annoy
Candor -- honesty; frankness
Arcane -- secret; obscure; known only by a few people