Unit One Vocabulary

Something heavy and hard to carry or a hard responsibility.

• Dignity

• Reluctant

• Burden

• Despair

Feeling of having no hope.

• Dignity

• Reluctant

• Burden

• Despair

Quality that makes something different from something else.

• Trait

• Reluctant

• Burden

• Despair

Quality of being worthy of honor and respect.

• Dignity

• Reputation

• Trait

• Transform

To change completely.

• Dignity

• Reputation

• Trait

• Transform

Not excited to do something.

• Dignity

• Reputation

• Trait

• Reluctant

The way people think about someone or something

• Dignity

• Reputation

• Trait

• Reluctant

1. Mike could never hang out with his friends after school because he had to watch his little sisters. He would rather have been at the skate park with his buddies, but this was his family responsibility, whether he liked it or not.

• 0. Reputation

• 0. Dignity
     

• 0. Burden

1. Patrick knew he would get in big trouble if his sixth grade report card looked like his fifth grade report card. He therefore started sixth grade with great study habits and focus in class.

• 1. Burden
     

• 1. Trait
     

• 1. Transform

1. Andrea’s older sister was often in trouble at school. When Andrea showed up on the first day, she felt like all of her teachers already knew her and expected her to be like her sister.

• 1. Reputation

• 1. Dignity
     

• 1. Reluctant