English Week 10 Vocabulary Flashcards
(Noun) state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness or cautiousness
Vigilance
(Adj) tending to promote some proposed or desired object; speedy and convenient
Expedient
(Adj) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness or weakness
Tremulous
(Noun) willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility
Credulity
(Noun) a long, narrow, open receptacle usually box-like in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals
Trough
(Adj) radiating or reflecting light; shining
Luminous
(Adj) going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial
Cursory
(Noun) a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches
Bough
(Adj) tense, tight
Taut
(Noun) an acute, recurrent disease characterized by painful inflammation of the joints; mass or splash, as of blood (spurt)
Gout
(Adj) about to happen; imminent
Impending
(Noun) act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty or petition
Supplication
(Noun) the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt
Euphemism
(Noun) irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc
Blasphemy
(Verb) to disclose or reveal
Diculge
(Verb) to evade
Shirked
(Adj) sheer, utter, downright or complete; harsh, grim, desolate
Stark
(Noun) a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things; 10,000
Myriad
(Noun) correctness, accuracy or truthfulness
Veracity
(Adj) domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial
Imperious
