Serra Vocab Level G 6A

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(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved.
The doctor found the family in ____________poverty.
SYN: miserable,wretched ANT:noble, exalted

agnostic

(n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical
Her____________belief made the idea of death frightening.
SYN: doubter ANT: believer

complicity

(n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice.
If you know a crime is being committed and you do nothing, you may be accused of ___________in that crime.
SYN: collusion Ant: innocence

derelict

(n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty.
The neighbors complained about the ____________house across the street.
SYN: vagrant, delinquent ANT: conscientious

diatribe

(n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack.
The senators speech was more of a ______________than a rational argument.

SYN: tirade ANT: eulogy

effigy

(n.) a crude image of a despised person
The citizens burned an ________________of their leader in protest of his policies.

SYN:figure

equity

(n.) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim.
In order to create _____________, the mother divided her estate among her children.

SYN: fairness ANT: bias, prejudice

inane

(adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value
The student made an ______________reply to his teacher.
SYN: idiotic ANT: sensible

indictment

(n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
The grand jury delivered an _______________to the congressman.

SYN: charge, accusation

indubitable

(adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied.
One cannot ague with ______________-truths.

SYN: unquestionable ANT:questionable, debatable