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This resource explores the qualities of benevolence and compassion, highlighting their significance in fostering healthy relationships and community connections. It defines key attributes such as caring, sympathy, and the importance of being forthright in communication. The guide also addresses the impact of negative traits, like condescension and pessimism, contrasting them with the positive power of kindness and understanding. Learn how adopting a benevolent mindset can enhance your interactions and promote a more compassionate world. ###

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  1. Tone Words Steven Jacob ELA-5 STEM

  2. Benevolent • characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings • Synonyms: caring, goodness, happiness

  3. Compassionate • a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering. • Synonyms: Caring, Sympathetic

  4. Complimentary • of thenature of, conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering: a complimentary remark • Synonyms: commendatory, praising, laudatory

  5. Forthright • going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense • Synonyms: forthrightly, squarely, blunt, candid, frank

  6. Serene • calm, peaceful, or tranquil; unruffled • Synonyms: undisturbed, imperturbable, unperturbed, composed, collected

  7. Sympathetic • characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling of care • Synonyms: commiserating, kind, tender, affectionate

  8. Objective • something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal • Synonyms: object, destination, aim

  9. Bewildered • completely puzzled or confused; perplexed • Synonyms: mystify, nonplus, confuse, daze, confound, stagger, muddle

  10. Condescending • to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity • Synonyms: patronizing, disdainful, supercilious

  11. Desolate • barren or laid waste; devastated • Synonyms: ravaged, desert, lonesome, lost; miserable, wretched, woebegone, woeful, inconsolable, cheerless, hopeless

  12. Haughty • disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious • Synonyms: lordly, disdainful, contemptuous

  13. Indignant • feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base • Synonyms: angry, resentful, infuriated, mad

  14. Melancholy • a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression • sadness, dejection, despondency, seriousness gloomy, despondent, blue, dispirited, sorrowful, dismal, doleful, glum, downcast, serious

  15. Mocking • to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision • Synonyms: deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease

  16. Ominous • portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious • Synonyms: portentous, threatening, menacing, fateful  

  17. Pessimistic • the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems • Synonyms: despairing, hopeless

  18. Severe • harsh; unnecessarily extreme • Synonyms: strict, hard, stern, unadorned, demanding, exacting

  19. Solemn • grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person • Synonyms: serious, august, imposing, stately, ritual, ceremonial, devotional

  20. Somber • gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted • Synonyms: dusky, murky, sunless, lugubrious, mournful, doleful, melancholy

  21. Suspicious • to believe or look guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof • Synonyms: suspect, dubious, doubtful mistrustful, wary, disbelieving, strange, mysterious

  22. Irreverent • A feeling that is opposed to respect/ also shows a characterization of disrespect • Synonyms: irreligious, impious, profane

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