Unit One - Coming of Age Vocabulary

Polite and Respectful

• Idealism

• Civil

• Hierarchy

• Tenuous

aware of something or of one's surroundings

• conscious

• contrite

• tenuous

• futile

feeling or expressing guilt, regret, or remorse

• defiance

• civil

• contrite

• innocence

disobedience or resistance to someone else's wishes

• innocence

• idealism

• futile

• defiance

pointless; unable to produce any useful result

• hierarchy

• futile

• tenuous

• civil

a system of ranking groups of people one above the other

• futile

• conscious

• contrite

• hierarchy

extreme hopefulness or belief in something especially when its unrealistic

• innocence

• idealism

• tenuous

• defiance

lack of worldly experience; lack of guilt or evil intention

• innocence

• idealism

• futile

• hierarchy

very weak; not substantial

• civil

• contrite

• tenuous

• defiance