Thursday, November 29, 2007

Molly's Vocab

Soporific
POS: adjective.
Description: something that causes sleep.
Related Words: groggy, balmy, tiring
Sentence: Anything that causes one to become Soporific would not want to be taken before operating heavy machinery.

Prevaricate
POS: verb
Description: to speak falsely or misleading.
Related Words: fraud, persuade, con
Sentence: Her personality prevaricated me into thinking she cared about my feelings.



Reprehensible
POS: adjective.
Description: deserving of blame.
Related Words: amiss, sinful, unholy
Sentence: The man who robbed the bank in reprehensible.

Penitent
POS: adjective.
Description: feeling sorry for some wrong doing.
Related Words: atonement, conscience, guilty
Sentence: We hope all muderers feel penitent for their crimes.


Rapacious
POS: adjective
Description: unusually greedy.
Related Words: Ravenous, avid, avarice
Sentence: Most business owners are rapacious and only want money.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Molly:
You need to identify whether the related words are synonyms, antonyms, or etymological. (-5)
25/30