Monday, December 3, 2007

Katie's Vocab.

Providentially
Description: A result of something divine.
POS: Adjective
(syn): Fortunate, opportune, lucky.
Sentence: When the young boy fell in the water the waves were providentially small.

Perdition
Description: state of eternal damnation.
POS: Noun
(syn): destruction, ruin, loss
Sentence: In some cultures if you commit even the smallest crime you are have a life of perdition.

Sardonic
Description: cynical mocking
POS: adjective
(syn): wicked, mordant, contemptuous
Sentence: Some people took offense to the sardonic play about George Bush.

Sarcastic
Description: The act of taunting with irony.
POS: Adjective
(syn): ironic, mordant, derisive
Sentence: After Tim got barried in the snow he sarcasticly remarked, " Wow! this is warmer than my bed!"

Solipsistic
Description: The theory that the only thing that we can prove is self existance.
POS: Noun
(syn): Self-absorption, vain, reality
Sentence: Jan is solipsismal when she spends hours talking about herself.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

25/30 (no pictures)