Vocabulary

Rectitude- (noun)


Definition: rightness of conduct or principle; moral virtue


Source Sentence: There is no rectitude whatsoever.


Context Clue: Synonym, in the next sentence it has the word virtue.


Original Sentence: The policy had rectitude in every aspect, there were no if's or but's about bending the rules.


Pagoda - (noun)


Definition: a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories

Source Sentence: One afternoon, somewhere west of the Batangan Peninsula, we came across an abandoned pagoda.

Context Clues: Example, in the following sentence it describes the pagoda: a tar paper shack with two monks living in it, tending a small garden & broken shrines.

Original Sentence: I walked into a pagoda expecting to see monks and shrines, but it was just an empty shack.


Ordnance- (noun)


Definition: cannon or artillery


Source Sentence: Why all the ordnance?


Context Clue: Your Logic, a couple paragraphs before O'Brien mentions all sorts of weapons the guys use.


Original Sentence: The military ordnance has a lot of firepower.