Niceville AP Lang Vocab 6
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rshelikoff on January 5, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing is known about God; a skeptic; without faith; skeptical |
| indictment | the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
| equity | the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair |
| abject | degraded, wretched; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again |
| derelict | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| indubitably | certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
| surveillance | a watch kept over a person; careful, close and disclipined observation |
| neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded |
| moot | open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| perspicacity | keeness in pbserving and understanding |
| testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute, attended by all qualified members |
| motif | a principal idea or feature; a repeated or dominant figure in design |
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