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