Pay It Forward Vocabulary Chapters 11-20

capable of rational decision-making and behavior

• optimistic

• reasonable

• remarkable

• altruistic

ability to "look on the bright side" (cup half full)

• altruistic

• remarkable

• optimistic

• reasonable

devoted to the well-being of others

• altruistic

• optimistic

• reasonable

• remarkable

lean and thin

• occasion

• obvious

• contagion

• wiry

the action of preventing someone or something from continuing to a destination

• interception

• irreversible

• reverberate

• transcend

overpowering surprise and amazement

• remarkable

• astonishment

• reverberate

• obvious

to rise above or go beyond

• altruistic

• optimistic

• reverberate

• transcend

to provide comfort or lessen someone's pain

• freelance

• transcend

• altruistic

• console

a particular time or instance of an event

• occasion

• consequence

• outcome

• effect

Choose the word that BEST fits this definition: sickness that can be passed from one person, plant, or animal to another; harmful or undesirable

• contagion

• occasion

• cancer

• toxic