10th grade Unit 3 Vocab

Catharsis

• Sounding sad and mournful

• Emotional release

• Modest due to lack of confidence

• Ability to make good judgments in a particular domain

Diffident

• Sounding sad and mournful

• Emotional release

• Modest due to lack of confidence

• Ability to make good judgments in a particular domain

Acumen

• Sounding sad and mournful

• Emotional release

• Modest due to lack of confidence

• Ability to make good judgments in a particular domain

Capricious

• Emotional release

• Sounding sad and mournful

• Impulsive or unpredictable

• Ability to make good judgments in a particular domain

Plaintive

• Sounding sad and mournful

• Emotional release

• Ability to make good judgments in a particular domain

• Impulsive or unpredictable

Deft

• Skillful in one's movements

• Extreme greed for wealth or material gain

• Having a friendly and pleasant manner

• Arrogantly superior

Haughty

• Extreme greeg for wealth or material gain

• Not believable or unlikely

• Having a friendly and pleasant manner

• Arrogantly superior

Implausable

• Skillful in one's movements

• Not believable or unlikely

• Having a friendly and pleasant manner

• Arrogantly superior

Amiable

• Skillful in one's movements

• Not believable or unlikely

• Having a friendy and pleasant manner

• Arrogantly superior

Avarice

• Skillful in one's movements

• Extreme greed for wealth or material gain

• Not believable or unlikely

• Arrogantly superior