Thursday, October 4, 2007

bryant's vocab

Perfidious
1. Deceitful
2. adj
3. Syn: false, disloyal, unfaithful
4. The boy that cried wolf was perfidious.
Probity
1. honesty
2. noun
3. Syn: sincerity, truthfulness, openness
4. His probity allowed him to become a very likeable and trustworthy friend.
Scrupulous
1. careful, precise
2. adj
3. Syn: rigorous, critical, exact
4. People who have OCD are scrupulous.
Spurious
1. not authentic, counterfeit
2. adj
3. Syn: false, sham, phony
4. The spurious autographed baseball did not sell on ebay.
Stratagem
1. plan, scheme, or trick
2. noun
3. Syn: deception, device, contrivance
4. The stratagem for the football game was to pass which was contradictory to their normal run offense.