Wednesday, October 10, 2007

stacey richter week 5

Veracity:

description: the truth or being honest
POS: plural noun
Synonyms: accuracy, honest, correctness
Sentence: The witness was under oath so she spoke with veracity.

Impugn:

Description: to argue or be doubtful
POS: verb
synonyms: Attack, contradict, challenge, oppose
sentence: the kids began to impugn about who cut in line.

Impeccable:

description: perfect or flawless
POS: adjective
synonyms: accurate, correct, faultless
sentence: The football player made an impeccable move to score the winning touchdown.

Duplicity:

description: talking in a way that would trick a person
POS: noun
synonyms: cunning, deciet, and dualism
sentence: The kidnapper tried duplicity to get a kid into his car.

Subterfuge:

description: a trick to escape something
POS: noun
synonyms: con, device, maneuver
sentence: The boy talked to the principal with subterfuge in his voice inorder to skip school.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Stasy,
Subterfuge is a transitive verb that means to question the veracity of someone or some statement. Lawyers impugn eitnesses in court (or try to) in order to win cases.
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