aberration, aberrant, tempt, untrue, mendacious, untruthful

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By PATRICIA COHENInformation about a man celebrated for saving Jews is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue.

In some aberrant uses that pretend to be especially deep, the words "knowledge" and "truth" become tinged with a mystical aura.


Grammatically the verb "believes" is transitive, like "kicks" or "drives". We say "He believes it" just as we say "He kicks it," "He drives it." This circumstance could tempt one to think of belief as an activity, which we saw it is not.

No reliable news from the fronts. The Germans are across the Pruth, but it seems to be disputed whether they are across the Beresina. The destruction claimed by both sides is obviously untruthful. The Russians claim that German casualties are already 700,000, i.e. about 10 per cent of Hitler’s whole army.

The wreckage of Air Algérie ‪#‎AH5017‬ has been found in Mali:http://nyti.ms/Uw5Ytx. The jetliner crashed early Thursday with 116 people on board.

Rising Airline Crash Fatalities Making 2014 Even More of an Aberration

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Problem is, they are even more exceptional when judged against the persistent ordinariness of GM's other products. For years, excellence at GM has been an occasional aberration, rather than an all-consuming passion.

Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer to buy the Internet company Yahoo is not an aberration but part of a broader trend in which suitors make bold unsolicited bids during a time of weak stock prices and tight credit markets.

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aberrant

(ăb'ər-ənt, ă-bĕr'-) 
adj.

1. Deviating from the proper or expected course.
2. Deviating from what is normal; untrue to type.

n.
One that is aberrant.

[Latin aberrāns, aberrant-, present participle of aberrāre, to go astray. See aberration.]

aberrance ab'er·rance or ab'er·ran·cy n.
aberrantly ab'er·rant·ly adv.

USAGE NOTE Traditionally aberrant has been pronounced with stress on the second syllable. In recent years, however, a pronunciation with stress on the first syllable has become equally common and may eventually supplant the older pronunciation. This change is owing perhaps to the influence of the words aberration and aberrated, which are stressed on the first syllable. The Usage Panel was divided almost evenly on the subject: 45 percent preferred the older pronunciation and 50 percent preferred the newer one. The remaining 5 percent of the Panelists said they use both pronunciations.

• [əbérənt]

[形]((形式))

1 〈行動などが〉正道［軌道］を踏みはずした, 常軌を逸した；〈考えなどが〉とっぴな.

2 異常な；〈生物が〉（突然変異などによる）異常型の.

━━[名]変人, 奇人.

［ラテン語ab-離れて＋errāre歩きまわる, 誤る＋-ant現在分詞語尾. △ERR］

aberration 
noun [C or U] FORMAL ━━ n. 正道をはずれること, 常軌の逸脱; （一時的な）精神錯乱［異常］; 錯誤; 【生物】変異; 【光】（レンズの）収差; 【天文】光行差.
a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving:
In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.
I'm sorry I'm late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today.

aberration

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Pronunciation: /ˌabəˈreɪʃ(ə)n /NOUN

1A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one:they described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberrationI see these activities as some kind of mental aberration

1.1Biology A characteristic that deviates from the normal type:colour aberrations

1.2Optics The failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror.

1.3Astronomy The apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, caused by the relative motion of the observer and the object.

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin aberratio(n-), from aberrare'to stray' (see aberrant).

Definition of untruthful

adjective

• saying or consisting of something that is false or incorrect:companies issuing untruthful recruitment brochures

Derivatives

untruthfully
adverb

untruthfulness
noun

Definition of untrue

adjective

• 1not in accordance with fact or reality; false or incorrect:these suggestions are totally untrue a malicious and untrue story

• 2not faithful or loyal: a despotic sheik can be untrue to his vast seraglio

• 3incorrectly positioned or balanced; not upright or level.

Derivatives

untruly
adverb

mendacious

adj.

Addicted to rhetoric.

adj.

1. Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child.
2. False; untrue: a mendacious statement. See synonyms at dishonest.

[From Latin mendācium, lie, from mendāx, mendāc-, mendacious.]

tempt
(tĕmpt) 

v., tempt·ed, tempt·ing, tempts. v.tr.

1. To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
2. To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See synonyms at lure.
3. To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.
4. To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.

v.intr.
To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.

[Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter, from Latin temptāre, to feel, try.]

temptable tempt'a·ble adj.
tempter tempt'er n.