Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards
Positive Adjectives (mood, tone, characteristics)
Amiable
Friendly, sociable and congenial; generally agreeable
Benevolent
Marked by or disposed to doing good
Compassionate
Having or showing sympathetic consciousness of others distress together with a desire to alleviate it
Consoling
Having or showing the want to alleviate the grief, sense of loss, or trouble someone is experiencing
Empathetic
Having the capacity to imagine feelings that one does not actually have
Exuberant
Joyously unrestrained and enthusiastic; unrestrained or elaborate, especially in style
Jovial
Characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality
Optimistic
Feeling or showing hope for the future
Reverent
Characterized by honor or respect felt or shown; profound adoring awed respect
Romantic
Marked by having an emotional attraction or aura belonging to an especially heroic era, adventure, or activity
Sympathetic
Sharing or having the capacity to share the feelings of another person
Whimsical
Characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictable change