Vocabulary
• Ethical: right, moral (dealing with right vs. wrong)
Pop Quiz!
Ethical or Unethical?
1. Cheating on a test
2. Using all of
independent reading
time to read
3. Returning a phone you
found on the floor
4. Stealing from a store
Vocabulary
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• Hostile: unfriendly; an enemy; quick to anger or violence
• Apathetic: showing no interest or emotion; not caring at
all
Vocabulary
• Subconscious: the non-conscious parts of the mind;
the workings of your mind that you aren’t aware of
Vocabulary
Acquire: “What’s wrong with a man becoming intelligent and
wanting to acquire knowledge and understanding of the world
around him?”
What does the word acquire mean?
Acquire: to buy or get for
oneself
Vocabulary
Despise: “Before, they laughed at me and despised me for my
ignorance and dullness; now, they hate me for my knowledge
and understanding.”
What does the word despise mean?
Despise: to deeply hate
Vocabulary
Seldom: “I am alone in my apartment at Mrs. Flynn’s
boardinghouse most of the time and seldom speak to anyone.
What does the word seldom mean?
Seldom: rarely; not often
Vocabulary
Cower: “…the boy cowered as if he expected to be struck and
threw up his arms as if to ward off the blow.”
What does the word cower mean?
Cower: to crouch down in
fear
Vocab
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• Vacant: empty
• Illiteracy: the inability to read or write
• Naïve: innocent; inexperienced
Vocabulary
Regress: If you don’t read regularly, your reading skills may
regress.
What does the word regress mean?
Regress: to go back to a less
developed state; to go
backwards in progress
Vocabulary
Deteriorate: The person’s health deteriorated as the cancer
spread.
What does the word deteriorate mean?
Deteriorate: to become
worse and worse
Vocab
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• Irritable: Cranky; easily annoyed
• Introspective: looking inwards at one’s own thoughts and
emotions
Vocab
Senile/Senility:
• “I lie in bed for days and I don’t know who or where I am. Then it
all comes back to me in a flash. Fugues of amnesia. Symptoms of
senility—second childhood.”
• “My old cat is going senile. She meows at the top of the stairs
because she doesn’t know where she is, and she sometimes
forgets to eat.
Senile: loss of memory and mental
functioning due to old age.