Thursday, October 4, 2007

Joe's Vocab

Perfidious
1. Deceitful, false
2. Adjective
3. False, Deceptive, Fake
4. Benedict Arnold








5. Benedict Arnold was very perfidious because of all his traitorous acts.

Probity
1. The honest truth.
2. Noun
3. Truth, Honest, Honor
4.








5. Probity was the honest man's first priority.

Scrupulous
1. When you care about what you are doing and don't make mistakes.
2. Adjective
3. Cautious, Exact, Careful
4.








5. Justin Verlander was very scrupulous when he pitched his no-hitter.

Spurious
1. Fake or not real.
2. Adjective
3. Fake, Counterfeit, Pretend
4.







5. Some people think that the first landing on the moon was spurious and fake.


Stratagem
1. A plan to trick somebody, a scheme
2. Noun
3. Trick, Strategy, Con
4.
5. David Blaine is well known for tricking people with his stratagems.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Joe,
Your DEnotation of "spurious" is correct, but the CONnotation of the word is more associated with doing what is morally correct, not technically correct. (Get it?)
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