Thursday, December 6, 2007

bryant's vocab

Providentially
1. opportune, fortunate, lucky
2. adv
3. syn: favorably, happily, successfully
4. The man providentially won the lotto.
Perdition
1. loss of the soul; damnation
2. noun
3. syn: abyss, affliction, purgatory
4. Hitler’s actions caused him to live a life of perdition.
Sardonic
1. cynical, sneering
2. adj
3. syn: biting, mordant, contemptuous
4. The sardonic comment from the employee did not implant a good impression on his employer.
Sarcastic
1. sneering, of cutting remark
2. adj
3. syn: cutting, evil, cynical
4. His sarcasm exceeded the usual limitation and became more hurtful than funny.
Solipsistic
1. indulgence of only personal feelings
2. adj
3. syn: self-centered, absorbed, obsessive
4. Scrooge’s solipsism showed when he took money from the poor.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Bryant.
Your sentence for sarcastic would have been PERFECT for 'sardonic.'
30/30