Monday, October 31, 2011

Word #8

ostensible: adjective [ attrib. ] - stated or appearing to be truebut not necessarily so: his ostensible claims were widely believed by his followers.


Sentence: One ostensible example of these reputed powers was when Efim Rasputin, Grigori's father, had one of his horses stolen and it was claimed that Rasputin was able to identify the man who had committed the theft.
From Wikipedia
Word Count 61

2 comments:

  1. Good example; love the pic, but where's your sentence using this word? 4/5

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  2. I write the sentence using the vocabulary word after the definition: "his ostensible claims were widely believed by his followers."

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