Vocabulary 5-6

abstinence

• act of refraining from

• engaging in excessive behavior

• participating in social activities

• avoiding all responsibilities

benevolent

• hostile

• friendly, helpful

• indifferent

• selfish

resilient

• quick to recover

• slow to react

• easily broken

• permanently damaged

Integrity

• honesty

• deceit

• hypocrisy

• corruption

novice

• expert

• beginner

• intermediate

• proficient

scrutinize

• to observe carefully

• to ignore completely

• to guess randomly

• to observe casually

fortuitous

• unfortunate

• lucky

• intentional

• predictable

deleterious

• beneficial

• harmful

• neutral

• supportive

hackneyed

• overused, cliched

• original, fresh

• unique, novel

• rare, uncommon

spurious

• genuine

• phony

• authentic

• real