- BROWSE WORDS BY TOPIC
MAP OF VISITORS WORLDWIDE
-
Why Are So Many Deep Sea Creatures Red?
Red light does not reach ocean depths, so deep-sea animals that are red actually...
-
Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s a great photo of UCLA’s Anna Fisher: the first mother in space.
-
Giant Asian Mantis (Hierodula patellifera)
by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr.
Pu’er, Yunnan, China
See more Chinese praying... -
every 17 years these cicadas come out of the ground, by the billions, along the east coast of the u.s. they are due any day now.
they have sex for...
-
Been sketching things - will reupload over at dA eventually with better editing of two pages. It’s nearly finals; I’m lazy.
Cicadas are cool.
Thanks for asking! I will gladly answer any word questions I can, science and math related or not. The answer to your question is actually very straightforward: mendacious is an adjective and lying is the present participle of the verb to lie. Contextually mendacious will be modifying a noun-a mendacious student or a mendacious lover-while lying as a present participle can be used like an adjective or like a verb. For an adjectival example: Jack is a lying sack of... When it acts like a verb: Jim was lying. There is a little bit more to it than that, but you wanted it succinctly…
You are right in thinking that they are both mostly synonymous.
I welcome all word questions and will answer them as best I can!
ecard by kidsneedscience.
-
zachshallbetter likes this
-
genelaza likes this
-
idrewyouasquirrelbecauseiloveyou likes this
-
cliffortb likes this
-
kidsneedscience posted this
