Innocent/inexperienced

Word Families

BOLD

1. audacious – a) extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless; intrepid; b) extremely original, without restriction to prior ideas; c) recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law; insolent; brazen

2. courageous – a) possessing or characterized by courage; brave

3. dauntless – a) not to be daunted or intimidated; fearless; intrepid; bold; daring

CHANGING QUICKLY

1. capricious – a) subject to, led by or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic; variable; flighty; mercurial

2. mercurial – a) changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic; b) animated, quick-witted; sprightly

3. volatile – a) evaporating rapidly, passing off quickly in the form of vapor; b) tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive; c) changeable, mercurial; flighty

HESITATE

1. dither – a) a trembling vibration; b) to act irresolutely, vacillate

2. dilatory – a) tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy; b) intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision; postpone

3. tentative – a) unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant

4. vacillate – a) to waver in mind or opinion, to be irresolute, indecisive, hesitating; b) oscillating, swaying, fluctuating; c) to make up one’s mind and then change it again suddenly, to be undecided as to what to do

5. waver – a) to sway to and fro, flutter; b) to feel or show doubt or indecision, vacillate; c) to hesitate between two choices

6. teeter – a) to move unsteadily; b) to tip something up and down; c) a seesaw motion, wobble; c) tremble, quiver

7. oscillate – a) fluctuation between beliefs, opinions, conditions; b) a swinging or fluctuation

ACT QUICKLY

1. apace – a) with speed, quickly, swiftly

2. impetuous – a) of, pertaining to or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion; impulsive

3. abrupt – a) sudden or unexpected; b) curt or brusque in speech or manner; c) having many changes from one subject to another; lacking in continuity or smoothness

4. precipitate – a) to hasten the occurrence of, to bring about prematurely, hastily or suddenly; b) proceeding rapidly or with great haste

5. headlong – a) without delay, hastily; b) without deliberation, rashly

INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED

1. credulous – a) willing to believe or trust too readily without proper or adequate evidence; gullible (antonym incredulous)

2. ingenuous – a) free from reserve, restraint or dissimulation; candid, sincere; b) honorable or noble (antonym disingenuous)

3. artless – a) free from deceit, cunning or craftiness; b) not artificial, natural; simple, uncontrived

4. gullible – easily deceived or cheated; credulous, trusting, naïve, innocent, simple

5. novitiate – a) the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation; b) the state or period of being a beginner in anything

6. naïve – a) having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated, ingenuous; b) having or showing a lack of experience, judgment or information; credulous

7. tyro – a beginner in learning anything, a novice, neophyte or learner

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