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Vigilance vs Ponder - What's the difference?

vigilance | ponder |

As a noun vigilance

is alert watchfulness.

As a verb ponder is

to wonder, to think of deeply.

vigilance

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Alert watchfulness.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • Close and continuous attention.
  • * 1837 March 4, (Andrew Jackson), Farewell Address
  • But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

    ponder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wonder, to think of deeply.
  • To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
  • I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
  • * Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
  • Ponder the path of thy feet.
  • (obsolete) To weigh.
  • Synonyms

    * chew over * mull over * See also