VOCABULARY: Aids Education!

POSITIVE WORDS

Acceptance: The quality or state of being accepted or acceptable: approval.

Affection: A feeling or emotion of attachment; fondness, love.

Action: Something done to achieve an objective or goal; deed. An act of will.

Educate: To provide schooling for. To train by formal instruction or practice in a skill, trade or profession. To develop mentally, morally or aesthetically by instruction. To provide with information, inform. To persuade or condition to feel, believe or act in a desired way.

Tolerance: The ability to allow for someone or something that is different.

Decorum: Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance.

Integrity: A firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values. Honesty, soundness, incorruptible.

Compassion: Sympathetic consciousness of others’ destress together with a desire to alleviate it.

Passion: A strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept. Intense feeling or conviction.

Equality: The quality or state of being equal regarding or affecting all things in the same or similar way.

Ethics: A discipline dealing with what is good and bad, with moral duty and obligation. Set of moral principles, values.

Common Sense: Sound and prudent judgement based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.

Empathy: Understanding what others are feeling because you have experienced it yourself, or can put yourself in their shoes.

Sympathy: Acknowledging another person's emotional hardships and providing comfort and assurance.

NEGATIVE WORDS

POSITIVE WORDS

Prejudice: Preconceived judgement or opinion. An adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.

Apathy: Lack of interest or concern. Indifference. Lack of feeling or emotion.

Arrogance: An attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions.

Arrogant: Exaggerating one’s own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner.

Racism: A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Racial prejudice or discrimination.

Bias: A preference for one thing over another, especially an unfair one. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.

Idiocy: Something notably stupid or foolish. Extreme mental deficiency.

Intolerant: Unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression. Unwilling to grant or share social, political or professional rights. Bigoted.

Misogamy: Hatred of marriage.

Misogyny: Hatred of women.

Misology: Hatred of argument, reasoning, or enlightenment.

Belligerent: Inclined to, or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness. Aggressive or fighting attitude.

False: Not genuine. Intentionally untrue. Adjusted or made so as to deceive. Not true. Intended to mislead.

Hate: To feel or express extreme enmity, dislike, aversion, or hostility toward someone or something.

Belittle: To speak slightingly of, disparage. To cause (a person or thing) to seem little or less.