Theme Presidents’ Day

Vocabulary Word List for Presidents’ Day (382)

• A

  ability, abolition, absorb, accepting, accomplishment, accountability, acknowledge, active, activism, admiration, advice, advise, advocacy, aggressive, aid, altruism, amiable, amicable, appeal, appreciation, arrangement, articulate, aspiration, assassination, asset, assumption, attentive, attitude, audience, authority, awe

• B

  behavior, belief, bold, bond, brave, bridge

• C

  career, cause, celebration, challenge, chance, change, chaos, character, charismatic, charm, citizen, civility, clout, coherent, commitment, common ground, common-sense, communicative, community, compassion, complication, comprehension, compromising, confidence, conflict, conscientious, conservative, consideration, constant, contradiction, control, cooperation, cordiality, counsel, courage, courteous, critic, critical, criticism, culture, curiosity

• D

  daring, debate, decent, decisive, deed, defeat, definition, demonstrate, desperate, determination, devote, devotion, difference, dignity, diligent, diplomatic, discipline, discouragement, discreet, disregard, dream, dynamic, dynamism

• E

  earnest, efficiency, effort, encouragement, energetic, ensure, enthusiastic, equality, essential, esteemed, estimable, ethical, evaluation, eventual, evil, expectant, expectation, experience

• F

  fairness, faith, famous, flexible, focus, forbid, forgiving, forsake, forte, fortitude, freedom, friendship

• G

  galvanize, generation, generosity, genial, genius, genteel, genuine, gift, grace, gratitude, greatness, guidance

• H

  hard work, harmony, hatred, healing, helpful, hero, history, holiday, homage, honesty, honor, honorable, hopeful, humble, humility

• I

  idealistic, ideology, illuminate, impact, impartial, impending, impression, improvements, industrious, influential, information, initiate, innovative, insightful, inspirational, instinctive, instructive, integrity, intense, intention, interest, intricate, intuitive, investigative, ire, irrefutable, issues

• J

  judgment, just

• K

  kindred, kinship

• L

  leadership, legendary, legislate, legitimacy, listener, loyalty

• M

  manumission, mastery, measure, merit, meritorious, modesty, modulation, morale, motivation, mutual

• N

  national, natural, needs, noble

• O

  observance, open-minded, optimism, orator, order, original, outspoken

• P

  patience, patient, patriot, patriotism, peacemaker, perceptive, peril, perseverance, persistence, personable, personal, persuasive, polarization, polite, popular, potent, potential, powerful, praise, precedent, prejudice, pressure, principled, principles, priorities, privilege, profile, proper, proposal, provide, provocative, public, purposeful

• Q

  qualifications, quality, queries, quest, quick, quiescent

• R

  rational, rationale, reality, reasonable, recognition, reconcile, record, reflective, reform, regard, relationship, reliant, relief, relief, remorse, repressive, rescue, resilience, resolute, resourcefulness, respect, respectful, respectful, responsibility, responsible, responsive, restoration, restraint, reticence, revelation, reverent, rights, rigorous, role

• S

  sacrifice, sagacious, sage, security, segregation, sensible, sensitive, service, setback, sharing, shock, sincerity, skill, slavery, sober, solemn, solitary, soul, special, speculation, spirit, spotlight, staunchness, straight-shooter, straightforward, strive, stumble, subdue, success, successful, suffering, supportive, sympathetic

• T

  tactful, talent, teamwork, temperament, tenacious, tendency, thankful, thoughtfulness, tolerance, tolerant, tone, tradition, trait, trustworthy, truthful

• U

  ultimate, understanding, understatement, unification, unique, united, unity, unprecedented, unpretentious, upheaval, upright, upstanding, useful

• V

  valiant, values, veracious, veracity, versatile, vex, victory, vigilant, vigorous, violence, virtuous, visible, vision, vocal, voice, vulnerable

• W

  w- war, warm, watchful, willingness, wisdom, wise, woes, worrier, worthwhile, worthy

• X

• Y

  yearning, yielding, youthful

• Z

  zeal, zealous

• C

  Congress