Vocabulary session - 7

Today we will discuss the words about belief and disbelief.

• Have you ever came across a person who is too frank to be artificial. A person who has no pretense or artificiality. He don't have even minuscule amount of qualities like guile, guise, feigning, hoax etc. He is far from craftiness, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, goldbricking. A person who is away from chicanery and dissimulation ( to show some other feeling other than what you have). 

The adjective to describe such kind of person is ingenuous. Very similar sounding word is ingenious which means shrewd, cunning, inventive, adroit ( incidentally droit means right hand in french), adept.

• Our words that are synonyms of ingenuous is naive, credulous and gullible. But ingenuous is a complimentary term where as remaining there are derogatory in meaning. Let us see their meanings:
• naive means unworldly. Unknown to how this evil world works. They are innocent. They get convinced too easily. They are inexperienced, unsophisticated (-sophos- means wisdom) and ignorant.  
• credulous is from -credo- meaning to believe. 
• credibility, credit, incredible are all from the same root.
• gullible are fools. They can be convinced to believe something that is too fantastic for others to believe.
• Few more words that means the same are :
• unworldly
• unsophisticated
• fleeceable
• naif
• green
• dewy eyed
• rounded eyed.
• All the above words have similar meaning. So you are requested to get acquainted with these words. Do speak them a loud in your own voice. Get used to its appearance. Read a lot.

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