Thursday, October 11, 2007

Molly's Vocab 10.12.07

Veracity
Definition: Utmost honesty; truthfulness.
POS: Noun
Related Words: credibility, sincerity, rightness
Sentence: Veracity is something needed when being a witness in court.





Impugn
Definition: Challenging creditability as untrue; to doubt the truth of something.
POS: Verb
Related Words: contradict, deny, attack
Sentence: Teachers do not like students who impugn their teaching tactics.



Impeccable
Definition: Flawless; unchallengeable; unable to sin
POS: Adjective
Related Words: accurate, correct, and exact
Sentence: When my dad and I were looking at cars, there was one impeccable Chrysler that stood out.


Duplicity
Definition: Doublespeak; a hidden, deceitful meaning in words.
POS: Noun
Related Words: cunning, deceit, fraud
Sentence: In the book 1984, Winston had trouble with his duplicity.




Subterfuge
Definition: An act meant to hide its true nature.
POS: Noun
Related Words: ploy, con, tactic
Sentence: We had "subterfuge" as a vocabulary word sophomore year; and now I can't think of how to use it correctly in a sentence.


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1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Molly,
Perhaps you were trying to create a subterfuge by writing about how you couldn't remember how to write a sentence about subterfuge so that I would quickly look at it and think that you wrote a good sentence on subterfuge!? :) (-1)
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