Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Trents Birthday Vocab

Soporific
1. To cause sleepiness or drowsiness.
2. Adjective
3. Synonyms: downer, tired, or numbing
4. Nyquil made me feel soporific.

Prevaricate
1. To be misleading.
2. Verb.
3. Synonyms: sin, lie, or fib
4. When he winked at the girl he was prevaricating.

Reprehensible
1. Worthy of blame.
2. Adjective.
3. Synonyms: blamable, lax, guilty.
4. Chunk felt reprehensible when he pushed his sister down the stairs and blamed it on the dog.

Penitent
1. Feeling of guilt for a wrongdoing.
2. Adjective.
3. Synonyms: sorry, remorseful, or unhappy.
4. A penitent man feels sorrow when he commits sin.

Rapacious
1. To be greedy.
2. Adjective.
3. Synonyms: ravenous, gluttonous, plundering.
4. Some billionaires are considered rapacious with their money.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

No pix, birthday boy (-5)
25/30