| discern | part of speech – verbdefinition – to differentiate between two or more thingssynonym – anticipate sentence – the kids couldn’t discern the two objects from each other because they looked just like each other |
| discretion | part of speech – noundefinition – ability to act on one’s own power of individual decisionsynonym – responsibility, maturity sentence – while I babysit i use my own discretion when telling the kids to go to sleep |
| mutiny | part of speech – noundefinition – rebellion, revolt or rebellion against constituted authoritysynonym – uprising, riotsentence – the dad had a mutiny against his boss for not upgrading his paying salary |
| bestial | part of speech – adjectivedefinition – brutal without reason, having the attributes of a savagesynonym – brutish, cruelsentence – Hitler was bestial towards the Jews for no reason, he just hated them |
| paradoxes | part of speech – plural noundefinition – things that appear false or contradictory but are actually correctsynonym – inconsistency, anomalysentence – i saw a bunch of paradoxes today at school during class but they were actually real |
| propriety | part of speech – noundefinition – correct conductsynonym – morality, respectabilitysentence – we had the right to propriety when we saw the queen coming |
othello, vocab #2
September 30, 2019