Word List Bullying and Gangs 376 words

Bullying and Gangs Vocabulary Word List (376)

  • A

    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

  • B

    beat up, behavior, belittle, bias, blase, blindside, boorish, bother, braggart, bully, burden, bystander

  • C

    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

  • D

    decency, deed, demeaning, dependent, depression, desensitize, despair, despot, destructive, devastate, devious, dictatorial, die, different, disaster, discourage, discussion, disdainful, dishonesty, dishonorable, disregard, disrespectful, dodge, dominate

  • E

    effect, effort, egoist, egotism, elitist, elude, embarrassment, emotional, empathy, endure, epithet, escalation, evade, evil, exclusion, explosive, exposure, expulsion, extort, extravagant, extreme, extreme

  • F

    failure, falseness, fanatic, favoritism, fear, fervid, flashback, focus, football, force, frailty, friendship, fright, frightened, frozen

  • G

    gang, glib, gossip, grouchy, guilty

  • H

    harassment, hard-hearted, haunted, hazing, head-off, healing, heedless, help, hidden, hide, hopeless, hostile, hounded, hurt

  • I

    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

  • J

    jaundiced, jealousy, judge, jumpy, justice, justify, juvenile

  • K

    keen, kicked, kindness, knockdown, knowledge, knuckle

  • L

    language, lethal, lifelong, litigation, loathsome, loss

  • M

    malevolent, malicious, manipulative, marked, mean, meddler, medical, memories, merciless, mercurial, mercy, misbehavior, miserable, misery, mistrustful, momentum, monitor

  • N

    nefarious, neglectful, negligent, nervous, neurotic, notorious, nuisance

  • O

    obnoxious, obsequious, odious, offensive, oppressive, ostracize, out-of-line, outcast, outrageous, overwhelm

  • P

    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

  • Q

    quake, quandary, quarrelsome, querulous, quibbler, quirky, quiver

  • R

    rancorous, reckless, report, representation, repugnance, reticent, rights, rude, ruthless

  • S

    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

  • T

    target, taunt, tears, tease, temper, terrify, testy, thoughtless, thug, thuggish, tolerance, tolerate, torment, tormentor, trauma, treacherous, treatment, trick, trust

  • U

    uncivil, uncouth, unethical, unfair, unify, unmannerly, unreasonable, unrefined, unrelenting, unsavory, unworthy

  • V

    verbal abuse, vicious, victim, vigilance, vile, villainous, violence, violent, volatile

  • W

    warning, wary, waspish, watchful, weakness, weary, welfare, whine, why, wicked, wishy-washy, words, worry, wound, wrath, wrong

  • X

  • Y

    yelling, youngsters, youth

  • Z

    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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