English April Vocab Wk 1-4

Peripheral:

• advantageous; convienent

• a preconception that prevents objectivity

• on edge; unimportant

Tactiturn

• stinginess

• quiet; uncommunicative; silent

• to talk on and on in a dull way

Apprehensive:

• a break; a rest

• fearful; worried

• the quality of being brief or terse

Expedient

• advantageous; convenient

• new and interesting

• overly trusting

Bias

• a preconception that prevents objectivity

• narrow-minded; unsophisticated

• to speak against publicly

Parsimony

• to praise

• secret

• stinginess

Provincial

• disagreement

• commonplace; ordinary

• narrow-minded; unsophisticated

Respite

• a break; a rest

• on edge; unimportant

• a preconception that prevents objectivity

Brevity

• secret

• a self-important walk

• the quality of being brief or terse

Drone

• to talk on and on in a dull way

• to explain; to make clear

• straying from a topic