Vocabulary Words and Example of Usage

1. treacherous – Something treacherous is dangerous and unpredictable.
2. drudgery – Drudgery is hard, unpleasant, boring work.
3. plunge – If you plunge into something, you rush into it suddenly.
4. smoldering – Something smoldering is burning slowly from the inside,
without flames.
5. altered – When something has been altered, it has been changed.
6. scoffed – If you scoffed at something, you spoke about it in a mocking or
critical way.
7. skeptically – If you talk skeptically about something, you express doubt about
whether it is true.
8. discouraged – If something discouraged you, it made you believe that things
weren’t going to turn out as you had hoped.