Kayla's Vocab

Perfidious:

• Description: disloyal; treacherous
  
• Part of Speech: adjective
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• Related Words: shifty (s), unfaithful (s), reliable (a)
• Sentence: My best friend proved to be perfidious when she neglected to tell me that I was being used.

Probity:

• Description: honesty; confirmed integrity; good morals
  
• Part of Speech: Noun
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• Related Words: uprightness (s), rectitude (s), untrustworthiness (a)
• Sentence: Nuns are renown for always carrying themselves with great probity.

Scrupulous:

• Description: having scruples; principled; minutely careful
  
• Part of Speech: adjective
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• Related Words: conscientious (s), punctual (s), careless (a)
• Sentence: I checked my test over three times for mistakes like the truly scrupulous person that I am.

Spurious:

• Description: not from the claimed or proper source
  
• Part of Speech: adjective
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• Related Words: counterfeit (s), real (a), specious(s)
• Sentence: Sure the expensive necklaces from Bloomingdales are great, but the spurious ones from Forever 21 are cheap and tend to look just as nice.

Stratagem:

• Description: a trick devised to gain an advantage over an enemy; plan to surprise or deceive
  
• Part of Speech: noun
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• Related Words: artifice (s), game plan (s), frankness (a)
• Sentence: The stratagem we came up with was to avoid having our football flags pulled, and if someone came near, to spin and twist away from her.