Thursday, October 18, 2007

Brie K's Vocab

Gravitas
1. The seriousness or depth of a sentence
2. Noun
3. poise, lordliness, obligation (synonyms)
4. Good speakers have gravitas while performing a speech.






Alacrity
1. upbeat willingness
2. Noun
3. apathy, repugnance, (antonyms) inclination (s)
4. The driven athlete had such a large alacrity to perform well it was amazing.




Recalcitrant
1. Disobedient, unruly, and stubborn
2. Adjective
3. compliant, docile, (antonyms) obedient (s)
4. The recalcitrant student refused to do his work in class.


Propensity
1. A natural liking or tendency
2. Noun
3. predilection, inclination, disposition(S)
4. Germans have a propensity to drink a lot of beer.


Fallacious
1. Incorrect or deceptively misleading
2. Adjective
3. invalid, illusive, illogical (synonyms) true(A)
4. The fallacious street sign confused the driver.


1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Brie:
Your picture about the athletes with "alacrity" shows beer? (-1)
29/30