10.1 vocab/definition

Demonstrating rudeness or impatience

• tenuous

• brusque

• mundane

• idealism

Feeling deep remorse or guilt for one’s actions; genuinely sorry

• commiserate

• contrite

• bellicose

• vex

Open resistance or refusal to obey authority, rules, or norms

• pivotal

• mundane

• innocence

• defiance

Ranking of people or things based on levels of importance or authority

• hierarchy

• idealism

• vex

• pivotal

Free from wrongdoing, guilt; lack of knowledge of evil

• vex

• bellicose

• innocence

• defiance

Crucial importance; vital point around which other things revolve

• futile

• pivotal

• brusque

• hierarchy

To irritate, annoy, or bother someone persistently

• vex

• mundane

• idealistic

• brusque

Having weak or fragile connection, uncertain or flimsy

• bellicose

• innocence

• tenuous

• vex

Lacking excitement; ordinary, commonplace, and often reperitive

• idealistic

• pivotal

• mundane

• bellicose

Belief in high principles, values, or goals often marked by a vision of a better world

• hierarchy

• idealism

• futile

• pivotal