Benjamin Franklin HMH Vocab/Sentence Types

Virtue

• Good Qualities

• Poor Qualities

• Strange Qualities

• Inconvenient

Temporance

• Showing control in the things you say or do

• Showing lack of Constraints

• Weakly affiliated

• Strange;new

Felicity

• great sadness

• incapable of return

• great happiness

• hollow

Artifice

• easily motivated

• congruent

• evolved to a point of no return

• a clever means to an end

incorrigible

• pleading

• transformable; able to change

• incapable of being reformed or corrected

• easily redirected

Contrive

• to plan skillfully; to design

• to play with others

• to plan at random; randomized

• to listen with complexity

Eradicate

• to preserve; keep in tact

• tear up by the roots; eliminate

• to temporarily remove

• to denounce from

unremitting

• continuous

• revolving

• constant; never stopping

• evolution

affluence

• someone who helps you and guides you

• poverty

• extreme proverty

• wealth

trifling

• inconvenient

• impossible

• frivolous; inconsequential

• curious; without a care