Thursday, October 18, 2007

Bens Vocab






Gravitas
1 serious speech or conduct
2 Noun
3 address(syn), statement(syn), joke(ant)
4
5 The Gravitas took me by surprise.

alacrity
1 inititiative
2 Noun
3 willingness(syn), readiness(syn), prepared(syn)
4
5 His alacrity was incomprehensible.






recalcitrant

1 disobedient
2 Adj
3 nonconformist(syn), obedient(ant), rebellious(syn)
4
5 The recalcitrant man spit at the police.





propensity

1 tendency
2 Noun
3 bent(syn), leaning(syn), penchant(syn)
4
5 his propensity was to bite his fingernails.




fallacious

1 deceptive or misleading
2 adj
3 bum(syn), jivey(syn), fake(syn)
4
5 The fallacious men stole the money.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Ben,
Proofread your sentences. (-1)
29/30