Thursday, October 18, 2007

Alyssa Mullan's Vocab






Gravitas

1. A seriousness.
2. Noun
3. Synonyms: Serious, Dignity, Sobriety
4.
5. When I am with my friends I lose all my gravitas.

Alacrity

1. Being ready to do something.
2. Noun
3. Synonyms: Eagerness, promptitude, readiness
4.
5. Before the powderpuff game the alacrity was intense.

Recalcitrant

1. To be rebelous or to act out.
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: Disobedient, Resistant, Stubborn
4.
5. Most teenagers act recalcitrant.
Propensity

1. A habit or having a tendancy to do something.
2. Noun
3. Synonyms: Tendancy, Aptness, Custom
4.
5. Alcohalics have a propensity to drink too much.
Fallacious

1. Something that is not true or false.
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: Deceiving, Deceptive, fake
4.
5. Her fallacious story was constantly changing.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Alyssa,
"Recalcitrant is an adjective. You are using it as an adverb. You would have to use "recalcitrantly" in order for your sentence to have proper syntax. (-1)