credulous

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The Word of the Day for June 13 is:

credulous   \KREJ-uh-luss\   adjective
   *1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain 
evidence  
     2 : proceeding from credulity  

Example sentence:
      Because she is by nature credulous, Ivy didn't question 
Bill's assertion that the castle they stood in had been built in 
England and shipped across the English Channel to France.

Did you know?
     It's easier to give credit to people who adhere to their 
creed than to give credence to what miscreants say, or for that 
matter, to find recreants altogether credible. Believe it or 
not, that sentence contains a full half dozen words which, like 
today's "credulous," are descendants of "credere," the Latin 
verb that means "to believe" or "to trust": "credit" ("honor," 
as well as "belief"); "creed" ("guiding principle"); "credence" 
("acceptance as true"); "miscreant " ("a heretic" or "a 
criminal"); "recreant" ("coward, deserter"); and "credible" 
("offering reasonable grounds for being believed"). "Credulous" 
is even more closely allied to the nouns "credulity" 
and "credulousness" (both meaning "gullibility"), and of course 
its antonym, "incredulous" ("skeptical," also "improbable").