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Expanding Vocabulary: Words Characterizing Goodwill and Negative Emotions

This vocabulary list captures important words that convey characteristics of goodwill, kindness, and negative emotions, providing insights into human behavior and feelings. Each term is defined to enhance understanding and facilitate communication. Words like "benevolent," "compassionate," and "sympathetic" exemplify the positive traits, while terms such as "ominous," "pessimistic," and "disdainful" highlight darker emotional states. This compilation is ideal for literary studies, enhancing comprehension of characters and their motivations in works like *The Outsiders*.

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Expanding Vocabulary: Words Characterizing Goodwill and Negative Emotions

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  1. Olivia Blann. 3rd period. Outsiders Vocabulary.

  2. Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings, kind or good. Benevolent

  3. Having or showing compassion, pitying. Compassionate

  4. Of the nature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering, commendatory, praising or laudatory. Complimentary

  5. Going straight to the point, direct or straightforward. Forthright

  6. calm, peaceful, or tranquil; unruffled, undisturbed, imperturbable, unperturbed, composed, and collected. Serene

  7. Proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy, commiserating or kind. Sympathetic

  8. Something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish, object, or destination. Objective

  9. Completely puzzled or confused, mystify or nonplus. bewildered

  10. Showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority, patronizing or disdainful. condescending

  11. Barren or laid waste, ravaged or desert. Desolate

  12. Disdainfully proud, lordly or disdainful. Haughty

  13. An injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment, outrage. indignity

  14. A gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged, sadness. melancholy

  15. To attack or treat with ridicule, deride. mocking

  16. Portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious, ominous. ominous

  17. Pertaining to or characterized by pessimism; gloomy: a pessimistic outlook, despairing. pessimistic

  18. Harsh; unnecessarily extreme, strict. Severe

  19. Grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, unsmiling. solemn

  20. Gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted, dusky. somber

  21. Inclined to suspect, especially inclined to suspect evil; distrustful, suspect. suspicious

  22. Not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect, irreligious. irreverent

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