Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Ryan K Vocab

Soporific
  1. Causing sleepiness or drowsiness; sleepy.
  2. Adjective
  3. Synonyms: calming, drowsy, sedative
  4. "Sleepy", from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is known for his soporific manner.


Prevaricate
  1. To deliberately give a false impression; lie.
  2. Verb
  3. Synonyms: lie, fib, con
  4. The classic crossed fingers behind the back is a tell-tale sign of prevaricate.


Reprehensible
  1. Deserving blame; worthy of blame.
  2. Adjective
  3. Synonyms: blamable, sinful, guilty
  4. The witness pointed to the reprehensible defendant.


Penitent
  1. Feeling remorse; feeling guilt.
  2. Adjective
  3. Synonyms: sorry, contrite, sorrowful
  4. Artists sometimes depict penitent subjects in their works to reflect a guilty aspect of humanity.


Rapacious
  1. Unusually greedy, predatory, or extorting.
  2. Adjective
  3. Synonyms: greedy, preying, marauding
  4. Pirates were known throughout the world for their rapacious nature.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Ryan,
prevaricate is a verb. You are using it as a nound in your sentence (object of the preposition "of"). In order to make the correct usage, you would have to change the base word to "prevarication." (-1)
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