Monday, October 8, 2007

Anthony's Vocab

Perfidious- to not serve diligently to someone or something
POS: adjective
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Benedict Arnold^^^^
Sentence:
She is the most perfidious person I have ever met.
Related Words: Faithless, perfidy, untrustworthy

Probity-to act with the best morals or ideals
POS: Noun
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Sentence:
Probity is what he respects the most.
Related Words: uprightness, honesty, Middle English probite, from Latin probitat-, probitas, from probus honest

Scrupulous- knowing what is morally just
POS: adjective
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Sentence:
They chose her not to serve on the jury, because she was the most scrupulous.
Related Words: careful, proper, upright

Spurious-being connected or similar without having the same original qualities
POS: adjective
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Sentence:
He tried forging his signature, but it was too spurious.
Related Words: forged, false, illegitimate

Stratagem- something that involves trickery or an artifice
POS: Noun
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Sentence:
His stratagem worked perfectly.
Related Words: trick, art, ingenuity

2 comments:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Great job, Anthony.

Julie Schellenberg said...

Sorry...I left off the score.
30/30