Thursday, October 18, 2007

Leslie's vocab

Gravitas
Description: Seriousness, Sobriety
P.O.S: Noun
Related words: Seriousness (s), heaviness (s), importance (s)
Sentence: The teacher spoke with gravitas when she was explaining what was going to be on the test.



Alacrity
Description: Cheerful, promptness, willingness
P.O.S: Noun
Related words:Avidity (s), fervor (s), hilarity (s)
Sentence: She was full of alacrity when it came to doing volunteer work.


Recalcitrant
Description: Resistant, rebellious
P.O.S: Adjective
Related words: Opposing (s), stubborn (s), defiant (s)
Sentence: The man was being recalcitrant when the cops were trying to arrest him.


Propensity
Description: Natural tendency
P.O.S: Noun
Related words: Ability (s), bias (s), penchant (s)
Sentence: The man had a propensity to dring too much.


Fallacious
Dedscription: Misleading, deceptive
P.O.S: Adjective
Related words: Mistaken (s), untrue (s), wrong (s)
Sentence: My sister and I always have fallacious arguments.

2 comments:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Leslie,
Watch out with you definition of falacious: look at your synonyms. Does your sentence really fit?

Julie Schellenberg said...

oops...forgot score
30/30