Thursday, October 11, 2007

Eric Campau's Week 5 Vocab

Veracity (noun)

Description:
Being truthful in speech or statement
Sentence:
A cop let a speeder off with a warning after taking notice of the veracity of the driver.
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Related Words:
Sincerity (synonym),
Genuineness (synonym),
Actuality (synonym)

Impugn (verb)

Description:
Claiming something to be false or untrue
Sentence:
The impugned the criminal when he claimed to have served enough community service hours.
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Related Words:
Charge (synonym),
Accuse (synonym),
Censure (synonym)

Impeccable (adjective)

Description:
To be perfect
Sentence:
Some students have impeccable punctuality when commuting from one class to another.
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Related Words:
Flawless (synonym),
Faultless (synonym),
Immaculate (synonym)

Duplicity (noun)

Description:
To speak with contradiction
Sentence:
The teacher spoke with duplicity toward the students when they asked how she feels about certain teachers in the school.
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Related Words:
Deceit (synonym),
Disloyalty (synonym),
Treachery (synonym)

Subterfuge (noun)

Description:
A way avoiding some type of consequence
Sentence:
As a subterfuge the boy glued the vase back together before his parents saw that he broke it.
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Related Words:
Trick (synonym),
Stratagem (synonym),
Ruse (synonym)

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Great job, Eric.
30/30