| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Abject | (adj) degraded; wretched, miserable |
| agnostic | (n) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic, (adj) without faith, skeptical |
| complicity | (n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| derelict | (n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj) left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| diatribe | (n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | (n) a crude image of a despised person |
| equity | (n) the state or quality of being just, fair, |
| inane | (adj) silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | (n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
| indubitable | (adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| intermittent | (adj) stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | (adj) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v) to bring up for discussion; (n) a hypothetical law case argued by students |
| motif | (n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
| neophyte | (n) a new convert, beginner, novice, rookie |
| perspicacity | (n) keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | (adj) complete in all aspects or essentials. absolute; attended by all qualified memebers |
| surveillance | (n) observation, monitoring |
| sylvan | (adj) forested, woody |
| testy | (adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| travesty | (n) a caricature-like disguise (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or caricature like fashion |
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