Vocabulary

🔹 Caution: care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.

Example: Anyone receiving a suspect package should exercise extreme caution

Synonyms: care, carefulness, heedfulness, heed, attention, attentiveness


🔹 Circumspection: the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence.

Example: Circumspection is required in the day-to-day exercise of administrative powers




🔹 Creditable: deserving public acknowledgment and praise but not necessarily outstanding or successful.

Example: A very creditable 2–4 defeat

Synonyms: commendable, praiseworthy, laudable, admirable, honorable


🔹 Envision: imagine as a future possibility; visualize.

Example: She envisioned the admiring glances of guests seeing her home

Synonyms: visualize, imagine, envisage, picture, conceive of, dream of, think of, see


🔹 Interim: in or for the intervening period; provisional or temporary.

Example: An interim arrangement

Synonyms:  provisional, temporary, pro tem, stopgap, short-term, fill-in, caretaker


🔹 Irreversible: not able to be undone or altered.

Example: She suffered irreversible damage to her health

Synonyms: irreparable, beyond repair, irremediable, irrevocable, permanent


🍃 Fractious:  irritable and quarrelsome.

Example: They fight and squabble like fractious children

Synonyms: grumpy, bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy


🔹 Derail: cause a train to leave its tracks accidentally.

Example: A train was derailed after it collided with a herd of cattle


🔹 Envisage: contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.

Example: The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers

Synonyms: imagine, contemplate, visualize, envision, picture


🔹 Consensus:  general agreement.

Example: A consensus of opinion among judges

Synonyms: agreement, harmony, concurrence, accord, unity, unanimity


🔹 Dilute: make a liquid thinner or weaker by adding water or another solvent to it.

Example: Bleach can be diluted with cold water

Synonyms: make weaker, weaken, water down, thin out


🔹 Willingness:  the quality or state of being prepared to do something; readiness.

Example: The ability and willingness of workers to migrate

Synonyms: readiness, inclination, will, wish, desire, alacrity


🔹 Shackle: a pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together.

Example: He tugged on the chain connecting my shackles together

*Synonyms:*chains, fetters, irons, manacles, handcuffs, bonds, cuffs, bracelets


🔹 Notion: a conception of or belief about something.

Example: Children have different notions about the roles of their parents

Synonyms: idea, belief, conviction, opinion, view, thought, impression