Antonyms:skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, untrusting 

















Usage:
1) Would he find one man so credulous as to believe him?
2) She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver and plays the naive heroine well, if a little too credulous for my taste.
3) If this orator has a pose, it is a pose of simplicity, not credulous, but not openly perfidious either.

2) Pyromania [pahy-ruh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh] (noun)

Meaning: a compulsion to set things on fire.
Synonyms: firing, incendiarism, pyromania , setting fire, torching, touching off




















Usage:

Taylor Momsen left her bandmates "grossed out" after her penchant for pyromania got out of hand - she once set fire to the uterus of her spayed pet dog 

3) Glean [gleen] (verb)

Meaning: to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
Synonyms:  accumulate, amass, ascertain, conclude, cull, deduce, extract, garner, gather, harvest, learn, pick, reap, select, sift, winnow
Antonyms: disassemble, disperse, scatter, separate




 












Usage:

1) They knew that he knew there were some scripts about not always entirely complete, but you gleaned what you could from them.  
2) What great lesson can we glean from this simple fact that these three could only be constructed " with difficulty " ?
3) The above information was mostly gleaned from the book: The Story of Unity Theater.
4) Teachers huddle in dark corners and in hushed tones recite words of wisdom gleaned from these pages.
5) Jamie will explore insights gleaned over 25 years of youth work experience.
 
3) Platitude [plat-i-tood] (noun)
Meaning: dull, overused saying 
Synonyms: banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage
Antonyms: coinage, nuance, original saying
 



















Usage:

1) To hand that power away while mouthing platitudes about a Europe of nations is an insult to our people.
2) Asked about Tax policy, George was only able to mouth platitudes about being in principle in favor of low taxes.
3) I write to my MP and get platitudes back.
4) Our politicians are slowly inching away from the old platitudes, too.
5) He was, justifiably, taken apart by Hugo Young of The Guardian for uttering similar platitudes on Frost.