Perfidious- to not serve diligently to someone or something
POS: adjective
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Sentence:
She is the most perfidious person I have ever met.
Related Words: Faithless, perfidy, untrustworthy
Probity-to act with the best morals or ideals
POS: Noun
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Sentence:
Probity is what he respects the most.
Related Words: uprightness, honesty, Middle English probite, from Latin probitat-, probitas, from probus honest
Scrupulous- knowing what is morally just
POS: adjective
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Sentence:
They chose her not to serve on the jury, because she was the most scrupulous.
Related Words: careful, proper, upright
Spurious-being connected or similar without having the same original qualities
POS: adjective
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Sentence:
He tried forging his signature, but it was too spurious.
Related Words: forged, false, illegitimate
Stratagem- something that involves trickery or an artifice
POS: Noun
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Sentence:
His stratagem worked perfectly.
Related Words: trick, art, ingenuity
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Stephanie Hood's vocab
Perfidious
- Adjective.
- Purposely hurting someone.
- Deceptive, unreliable, untrustworthy.
- I don't want a perfidious boyfriend.
- Pictures are separate.
Probity
- Noun.
- Honesty, uprightness.
- Honor, rectitude, virtue.
- I'm glad I have a boyfriend who is full of probity.
- Pictures are separate.
Scrupulous
- Adjective.
- Having principles.
- Punctual, rigorous, honorable.
- My scrupulous behavior makes my parents proud.
- Pictures are separate.
Spurious
- Adjective.
- To be fake, or counterfeit.
- Bogus, phony, pretend.
- I have never had someone give my spurious money given to me while I was at work.
- Pictures are separate.
Stratagem
- Noun.
- A plan or scheme.
- Con, deception, setup.
- The sting is full of business stratagems.
- Pictures are separate.
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