Thursday, October 4, 2007

Bens vocab

perfidious
1.Deceitful
2.adj.
3. http://www.laurelbooks.co.uk/1873390084.jpg-Deceitful-Ca.jpg
4.false(syn), disloyal(syn), faithful(ant.)
5.The perfidious boy betrayed us all.

probity
1.integrity;honesty
2.noun
3.http://www.fortschools.org/rockwell/honesty.jpg
4.truthful(syn), rectitude(syn), dishonesty(ant)
5.You can see my probity every time I speak.

scrupulous
1.careful, precise, or exact
2.adj
3.http://exact-printing.com/_borders/exact.jpg
4.cautious(syn), careful(syn) rigorous(syn)
5.The measurements were scrupulous.

spurious
1.fake or pretend
2.adj
3.http://www.learningresources.com/images/en_US/local/products/detail/prod2629_dt.jpg
4.false(syn), sham(syn), bogus(syn)
5.The spurious boy tricked everyone.

stratagem

1. a trick to deceive an enemy
2.noun
3.http://www.sights-and-culture.com/Turkey/Turkey-the-Trojan-Horse.jpg
4.device(syn), maneuver(syn), intrigue(syn)
5.The stratagem was the Trojan horse.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Ben:
Can you really see probity "every time you speak?" (-1)
Scrupulous in the theme of "honesty and deceit" is not "exact." It is consistantly doing the morally right thing. (-2)
Your sentence for "strategem" is a non-sequitor. Without the picture, your sentence is very incomplete. (-1)
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