Thursday, October 11, 2007

CJ Davis's Vocab

Veracity
  1. Honesty in speech.
  2. Noun
  3. Synonyms- Authenticity; Credibility; Frankness.
  4. Witnesses at a trial are to swear their veracity in front of a judge.

Impugn

  1. Challenging accuracy.
  2. Verb
  3. Synonyms- Contradict; Dispute; Gainsay

  4. The defense attorney started to impugn the prosecution’s question of the witness by crying out, “Objection!”

Impeccable

  1. Unable to do wrong.
  2. Adjective
  3. Synonyms- Clean; Perfect; Faultless.

  4. Jesus is considered to have been an impeccable man.

Duplicity

  1. Talk or actions that are different in order to deceive.
  2. Noun
  3. Synonyms- Dishonesty; Double-dealing; Two-faced

  4. The spy had to hold his duplicity with the mob boss in order to gain access to the storage of hidden weapons.

Subterfuge

  1. A trick used to deceive, hide something, or get out of trouble.
  2. Noun
  3. Synonyms- Scheme; Dodge; Ruse.

  4. The spy’s subterfuge allowed him to get to the hidden weapons without being found out.

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