english vocab unit 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abject | sheer; utter; miserable; degraded |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; without faith; doubter |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; state of being an accomplice |
| derelict | object that is abandoned/neglected; vagrant; delinquent, remiss |
| diatribe | bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | crude image of despised person |
| equity | state of equality, quality of being just; fair and equal treatment; something about mortgages |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | accusation |
| indubitable | certain, not to be doubted |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | unresolved, open to discussion; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students |
| motif | principal idea/theme |
| neophyte | a noob. beginner, rookie, novice. |
| perspicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute |
| surveillance | careful, close observation |
| sylvan | characteristic of forests and woods |
| testy | easily irritated |
| travesty | grotesque imitation; a disguise; to ridicule by imitating in a burlesque way |
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