2024 GSMST Grade 10 Vocab Unit 2

Benevolence

The quality of being well meaning; kindness.

Benefit

(n) An advantage or profit gained from something; (v) to provide an advantage or profit

Benediction

The utterance or bestowing of a blessing

Benefactor

A person who gives money or other help to a person or cause.

Beneficiary

A person who derives advantage from something

Beneficence

The doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity.

Feasible

Possible to do easily or conveniently.

Malfeasance

Wrongdoing

Infeasible

Not possible to do easily or conveniently; impracticable.

Pervious

Accessible; permeable

Impervious

Inaccessible; not allowing passage through; not capable of being damaged

Pervade

(Especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of

Pervasion

The process of spreading through and being present throughout something.

Pervasive

(Especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.

Retrogress

Go back to an earlier state

Congress

The act of coming together or meeting; a national legislative body

Ingress

The action or fact of going in or entering.

Egress

The action of going out of or leaving a place.

Progress

Forward or onward movement toward a destination.

Transgress

To infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior).

Transgression

The act of infringing or going beyond the bounds of something

Digress

To leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.

Regress

To return to a former or less developed state

Regression

The act of returning to a former or less developed state.

Scrutinize

Examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.

Scrutiny

Critical observation or examination.

Scrutable

Capable of being understood through study and observation; comprehensible.

Inscrutable

Impossible to understand or interpret.

Scrutineer

A person who examines votes at an election.

Reprisal

An act of retaliation.

Reprise

(n) a repeated performance

Misprision

The deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony.

Comprise

To consist of; be made up of

Apprehend

To arrest (someone) for a crime.

Reprehensible

Deserving censure or condemnation.

Benevolent

Well meaning and kindly.