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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Emily Z. Vocab

PERFIDIOUS
1.) To be faithless, decietful, trecherous
2.) Adj.
3.) False (S), Unfaithful (S), Loyal (A)
4.) The man was perfidious to his wife.

PROBITY
1.) Integrity, someone who has good morals.
2.) Noun
3.) Honor (S), Virtue (S), Correctness (S)
4.) A good role model displays probity.

SCRUPULOUS
1.) Someone who is carful and cautious
2.) Adj.
3.) Careful (S), Safe (S), Daring (A)
4.) She didn't go on the plane since she was so scrupulous.

SPURIOUS
1.) Not true or genuine
2.) Adj.
3.) Fasle(S), Fake (S), Real (A)
4.) The dollar she found on the ground was spurious.

STRATAGEM
1.) To plan, to trick
2.) Noun
3.) Deception (S), Trick (S), Game (S)
4.) The play the coach called was a stratagem.

Kelsie Stephens Vocab

Perfidious- to purposely trick someone.
1.adjective
2. ant-honest, syn-deceitful, and syn- double-crossing
3.



4. Halloween is the time when a person can be perfidious.




Probity- honesty and moral integrity.
1. noun
2. ant-perfidious, syn-sincerity, and syn- fairness.
3.




4. People that steal and cheat have no probity.



Scrupulous- having/ showing moral integrity.
1. adjective
2. ant- careless, syn- honorable, and syn- true.
3.




4. The scrupulous volunteer worked hard to make the orphan children smile.




Spurious- not genuine or valid.
1. adjective
2. syn- artificial, syn- phony, and syn- bogus.
3.


4. The spurious man agreed he would baby sit the children but he left right after the parents.



Stratagem-deceiving.
1.noun
2.syn- bobby trap, syn- twist, and con.
3.



4. Some of the advertisements on the television are stratagem by not showing how the product really works.