Thursday, October 18, 2007

Alexa Cole

Gravitas
Description- High seriousness
POS- Noun
RW- serious, grave, meaningful
Sentence- My parents spoke with gravitas when they were yelling at me.


Alacrity

Description- Quick to repond
POS- Noun
RW- willingness, goodwill, eagerness
Sentence- I responded to the text message with alacrity.


Recalcitrant





Description- Difficult to work or operate
POS- adjective
RW- Resistant, disobedient, uncontrollable
Sentence- My little were recalcitrant when trying to put them to bed.

Propensity
Description- natual inclination




POS- noun
RW- tendency, inclination, preference
Sentence- I had the propensity to talk to my boyfriend.


Fallacious





Description- mislead or decieve
POS- adjective
RW- deceptive, illogical, mislead
Sentence- The kids parents used fallacious reasoning to trick them.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Alexa,
Your picture for propensity is a picture of the word. No credit. (-1)
Related words are not identified as synonyms, antonyms, or etymology.(-5)
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