Thursday, October 4, 2007

vocab week 4- Ashley Botham

Perfidious

Description: unfaithful, deceitful

Part of Speech: adjective

Related Words: disloyal, false, and traitorous

Sentence: Some people are not faithful in their relationships, they are perfidious lovers.

Picture: On separate sheet

Probity

Description: honesty, integrity

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: honor, justice, and morality

Sentence: One, who commits a crime, has no probity.

Picture: On separate sheet

Scrupulous

Description: Standing up for what you believe in, strict

Part of Speech: adjective

Related Words: conscientious, cautious, moral

Sentence: A man was scrupulous with his faith.

Picture: On separate sheet

Spurious

Description: counterfeit, not genuine, pretended.

Part of Speech: adjective

Related Words: bogus, phony, deceitful

Sentence: The spurious money was rejected because it was found to be counterfeited money.

Picture: On separate sheet

Stratagem

Description: A trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: booby trap, deception, ploy

Sentence: The senior girls had great stratagem during the powder puff game on Wednesday.

Picture: On separate sheet

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Ashley:
"One, who commits a crime, has no probity." Just a word on punctuation. "who commits a crime" is a non-restrictive clause; it is essential to the sentence; therefore, you should not have commas around it (restricted clause).

Your strategem for the powder puff game worked quite well.