Rachel Jacobson- Vocab Blog: week 6

equivocate
i-ˈkwi-və-ˌkāt
verb
to be unclear
Latin
One of the many entertaining historical episodes we owe to religion is the story of the doctrine of equivocation or mental reservation.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/2012/04/from-the-archives-william-lane-craig-tries-to-equivocate-ends-up-just-plain-lying/

The man here is only equivocating how evolution is true.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/08/10/logical-fallacies-equivocation

fortuitous
fȯr-ˈtü-ə-təs
adjective
accidental
Latin
A fortuitous kick back into the fairway on the lucky 13th may have turned Jason Day's opening 18 at Liberty National around.
http://www.pgatour.com/tourreport/2013/08/22/fortuitous-break-fuels-day.html

Ruth Wakefield created chocolate chips cookies fortuitously.
http://www.parchment.com/the-chocolate-chip-equation/

impeccable
im-ˈpek-ə-bəl
adjective
flawless
Latin
In response to a question about whether the E.C.B. is becoming a “bad bank” thanks to its purchases of troubled nations’ debt, Mr. Trichet, his voice rising, insisted that his institution has performed “impeccably, impeccably!” as a guardian of price stability.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/opinion/an-impeccable-disaster.html?_r=0

Most would view this room as impeccable because it's very clean and nothing is out of place.
http://freshome.com/2013/08/28/impeccable-white-defining-a-beautiful-modern-apartment-in-bratislava/

liaison
lē-ˈā-ˌzän
noun
a link
French
School liaison officers also network, educate and work in partnership with local schools to provide caring adults to enhance the education experience.
http://www.militaryk12partners.dodea.edu/resources.cfm?colId=liaison

ASL interpreters serve as liaisons for the deaf.
http://beautifullittlepiece.blogspot.com/2012/03/ode-to-asl-interpreters.html

predisposed
ˌprē-di-ˈspōzd
adjective
likely
Middle English, Anglo-French, Latin
Some people may be more predisposed to experience chronic pain after an injury than others, a new study suggests.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/21/chronic-pain-predisposed-brain-white-matter_n_3943400.html

Judge Edith Jones said Blacks & Hispanics more predisposed to violent crime.
http://odinsblog.tumblr.com/post/52295362788/texas-judge-allegedly-said-blacks-and-Hispanics

propensity
prə-ˈpen(t)-sə-tē
noun
a readiness
Latin
The propensity score is the conditional probability of assignment to a particular treatment given a vector of observed covariates.
http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/content/70/1/41.abstract

Because he had a propensity to gain weight, he watches what he eats.
http://www.healthtastesgreat.com/services.html

reprehensible
ˌre-pri-ˈhen-sə-bəl
adjective
shameful
Middle English, Anglo-French, Latin
But in general I can tell you that any crime that happens in history against humanity, including the crime the Nazis committed towards the Jews, as well as non-Jewish people, is reprehensible and condemnable as far as we are concerned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10332893/Irans-Hassan-Rouhani-calls-the-Holocaust-reprehensible.html