Showing posts with label vocab week of 10-15-07. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vocab week of 10-15-07. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Joe's Vocab

Gravitas
1. Noun
2. Being serious in context.
3. Seriousness, Intensity, Dignified
4. The teacher spoke with gravitas to the misbehaving students.
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Alacrity
1. Noun
2. Cheerful or eagerness
3. Enthusiasm, Motivation, Eagerness
4. Justin Verlander waited with alacrity for the baseball game to start.
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Recalcitrant
1. Adjective
2. Resisting authority, nonconforming
3. Pride, Rebel, Headstrong
4. The recalcitrant teenager refused to conform in society.
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Propensity
1. Noun
2. An inclination of doing something
3. Urge, Habit, Tendency
4. The baby has a propensity to cry when it's mother goes away.
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Fallacious
1. Adjective
2. Misleading or untrue
3. False, Untrue, Misleading
4. The child used a fallacious lie as a cover story.
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