English 11

Complete the questions on "A Handful of Dates" for Monday.  You first ten class vocabulary words are as follows:

1. ambiguity (noun):  doubtfulness/uncertainty in meaning or intention; the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness
2. contrite (adjective):  feeling guilty; feeling or expressing remorse 
3. junction (noun):  a place or point of meeting or joining
4. understatement (noun):  the downplaying of a subject’s importance: the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less significant than it actually is.
5. gratitude (noun):  thankfulness: readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness
6. conceited (adjective):  feeling full of oneself; excessively proud; vain
7. unflinchingly (adverb):  not showing fear in the face of danger
8. amicable (adj):  having a spirit of friendliness
9. inconsequential (adj):  lacking worth or importance
10. serendipity (noun):  happy circumstance; good luck; the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.