Week 6 Vocabulary

a place for rest, shelter, or protection

• haven
• Syfy
• relinquish
• benevolent

being kind; goodwilled

• bene
• benevolent
• volent
• provoke

Prior to 1978, the US government forced Native American parents to ____their parental rights.  Their children were forcibly removed to boarding schools for assimilation.  

• give up
• haven
• propensity
• relinquish

Choose the best synonym for benevolent: 

• friendship
• angry
• mysterious
• compassionate

to surrender something; to give up 

• disband
• relinquish
• relish
• instigate

natural preference or tendency

• propensity
• instigate
• benevolent
• proposes

Refugees flee Syria seeking a safe _____. 

• freedom
• route
• haven
• propensity

to provoke; to cause; to goad

• effect
• propensity
• instigate
• relinquish

Dogs have a natural _____ to bark. 

• haven
• propensity
• preference
• relinquish

Bullies often _____ fights when authority figures are not present. 

• relinquish
• investigate
• prefer
• instigate