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
