abuse, abusive, acknowledge, acting out, actual, addictive, administration, adult, advocate, affect, afraid, aggravate, aggressive, alone, ambush, annoy, anonymous, antagonistic, antagonize, anxiety, apathetic, appropriate, arrogant, assault, attack, attentive, attitude, audience, authority
beat up, behavior, belittle, bias, blase, blindside, boorish, bother, braggart, bully, burden, bystander
callow, campus, capitulate, captious, case, cautious, challenge, charges, cheat, childhood, churlish, coaches, cold, communication, complain, complaint, compulsive, concern, confidence, conflict, consequence, console, consult, contemptible, control, corner, counselor, courage, covetous, creepy, crime, criminal, critical, crude, cruel, crying, culpable, curt, cyber-bullying, cynical
decency, deed, demeaning, dependent, depression, desensitize, despair, despot, destructive, devastate, devious, dictatorial, die, different, disaster, discourage, discussion, disdainful, dishonesty, dishonorable, disregard, disrespectful, dodge, dominate
effect, effort, egoist, egotism, elitist, elude, embarrassment, emotional, empathy, endure, epithet, escalation, evade, evil, exclusion, explosive, exposure, expulsion, extort, extravagant, extreme, extreme
failure, falseness, fanatic, favoritism, fear, fervid, flashback, focus, football, force, frailty, friendship, fright, frightened, frozen
gang, glib, gossip, grouchy, guilty
harassment, hard-hearted, haunted, hazing, head-off, healing, heedless, help, hidden, hide, hopeless, hostile, hounded, hurt
ignoble, ignorant, ignore, ill-tempered, impetuous, implacable, impolite, improper, imprudent, impudent, impunity, inappropriate, incidence, indecent, indecorous, indifference, ineffective, innocent, insight, insolent, insulting, intentional, intolerant, irascible, irresponsible, isolated
jaundiced, jealousy, judge, jumpy, justice, justify, juvenile
keen, kicked, kindness, knockdown, knowledge, knuckle
language, lethal, lifelong, litigation, loathsome, loss
malevolent, malicious, manipulative, marked, mean, meddler, medical, memories, merciless, mercurial, mercy, misbehavior, miserable, misery, mistrustful, momentum, monitor
nefarious, neglectful, negligent, nervous, neurotic, notorious, nuisance
obnoxious, obsequious, odious, offensive, oppressive, ostracize, out-of-line, outcast, outrageous, overwhelm
pain, painful, partial, passive, peace, peers, pervasive, petulant, physical, picked on, pity, police, popularity, prejudicial, preposterous, pretentious, prevention, prey on, problem, proceed, protection, protest, psychological, punched, punishment, pushing, put-down
quake, quandary, quarrelsome, querulous, quibbler, quirky, quiver
rancorous, reckless, report, representation, repugnance, reticent, rights, rude, ruthless
school, school, scornful, secrets, seek, selfish, sensitive, seriousness, shake, shame, shock, shouting, shoving, shunned, silence, skill, slur, socialize, solution, sour, spit on, sports, stern, struggle, suffering, suicidal, sullen, support, surly, survivor, suspect, suspension, suspicious
target, taunt, tears, tease, temper, terrify, testy, thoughtless, thug, thuggish, tolerance, tolerate, torment, tormentor, trauma, treacherous, treatment, trick, trust
uncivil, uncouth, unethical, unfair, unify, unmannerly, unreasonable, unrefined, unrelenting, unsavory, unworthy
verbal abuse, vicious, victim, vigilance, vile, villainous, violence, violent, volatile
warning, wary, waspish, watchful, weakness, weary, welfare, whine, why, wicked, wishy-washy, words, worry, wound, wrath, wrong
yelling, youngsters, youth
zealot
Please also vocabulary word list for CHARACTER and LEADERSHIP
Anti-bullying campaigns: see www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov and safeschools.com
Some consequences of bullying:
Absenteeism, anxiety, dropout, loss of confidence, poor grades
Character qualities helpful in dealing with bullying:
courage, effort, insight, kindness, monitor, observing, patience, prevent, respect, safety, strategy, support, tolerance,
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