Monday, October 1, 2007



MELISSA VOCAB

1. Perfidious




Description- Perfidious is being faithless or unfaithful.


POS- This word is an Adjective.


Synonyms- Words that are like perfidious are perfidiously or perfidousness.


Sentence- The man was perfidious and cheated on his wife.








2. Probity

Description-To be upright and honest is Probity.


POS- This word is a noun.


Synonyms- Honesty and integrity are both synonyms of Probity.


Sentence- When two people get married they are showing there probity to one another.















3. Scrupulous


Desciption- When a person is morally honest they are scrupulous.


POS- Adjective


Synonyms- Careful, honest, scrupulously and, scrupulousness are all synonyms of scrupulous.


Sentence- Abe Lincoln is the most scrupulous man in the history of our presidents.













4. Spurious

Description-When something is a close replica of the real thing but it is not exact.


POS- Adjective


Synonyms- Counterfeit, fraud, or false.


Sentence- This place is full of spurious money.















5. Stratagem


Description-A plan in which you would decieve an enemy or opposing team.


POS- Noun


Synonyms- Trick and stratum.


Sentence- The team is ready to perform their stratagem against the opposing team.


1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Melissa,
Your sentence for "probity" contains an egregious error :( (-1)