Rooney Giver Vocabulary

By mrooney
  • Utopia

    Utopia
    Definition: an ideal community or perfect society
    Example: She desired to live in a utopia where life was perfect rather than her old crumbly town with criminal behavior almost everyday.
    Antonym: damaged, wrecked, dystopia
  • Conformity

    Conformity
    Definition: the act of following others or doing what others do in order to fit in with them
    Example: John desired to fit into their group so much that he began to perform the act of conformity in order to make them think that he was cool just as they were.
    Antonym: different, unique, separate
  • Chastise

    Chastise
    Definition: to discipline or punish
    Example: Sarah's dog ate her favorite shoes and since Sarah was mad she had no choice but to chastise him by putting him in his crate.
    Antonym: Praise
  • Recollection

    Recollection
    Definition: a memory of an event
    Example: When she threw the ball I had a recollection of that time I scored a homerun in baseball last year.
    Antonym: forgetting
  • Vast

    Vast
    Definition: huge in size or extent; immense
    Example: Brian looked at the vast amount of woods around him and worried that the travel would be maybe 500 miles for him to even escape.
    Antonym: petite, small, little, miniature,
  • Apprehensive

    Apprehensive
    Definition: uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
    Example: As Johnny walked into the bright classroom he felt apprehensive about the biggest test of the year that he was about to take and had spent no time studying for.
    Antonym: confident, hopeful