Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Erika's Vocab

Rapacious
greedy
Adjective
voracious, grasping, avid
His actions were caused by his rapacious emotions.

Penitent
feeling sorry
adjective
apologetic, sorrowful, repentant
Jared had a penitent feeling after he caught the backyard on fire and ruined his mothers garden.

Reprehensible
deserving to take the blame
adjectivebad, disgraceful, shameful
The reprehensible boy broke the vase instead of his sister, who was the one blamed.

Prevaricate
lie
adjective
quibble, dither, dissemble
The boy told a prevaricated story about what had happened to his mothers broken vase.

Soporific
making somebody sleepy
adjective
sleepy, drowsy, dull
A soporific drug causes drowsiness

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Erika,
you need to identify your related words. (-5)
25/30