Critical Vocabulary

Serious and immediate danger

An ugly,twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust,or pain

• Grimace

• Condole

• Credulity

• Compensation

A tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true

Something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injuy, or suffering

• Compensation

• Condole

• Resignation

• Prosaic

Express sympathy for someone

The development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power

lacking poetic beauty

An act of retiring or giving up on a postion