Unit 6 SAT Terms

Question 1

Agnostic

Answer 1

(n. ) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic;
(adj. ) without faith, skeptical

Question 2

Complicity

Answer 2

(n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice

Question 3

Derelict

Answer 3

(n. ) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected;

(adj. ) left abandoned; neglectful of duty

Question 4

Diatribe

Answer 4

(n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

Question 5

Effigy

Answer 5

(n.) a crude image of a despised person

Question 6

Equity

Answer 6

(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 claim.

Question 7

Inane

Answer 7

(adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value

Question 8

Indictment

Answer 8

(n.) that act of accusing; a formal accusation

Question 9

Indubitable

Answer 9

(adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied

Question 10

Intermittent

Answer 10

(adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic

Question 11

Moot

Answer 11

(adj. ) open to discussion and debate, unresolved
(v. ) to bring up for discussion
(n. ) a hypothetical law case argued by the students

Question 12

Motif

Answer 12

(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

Question 13

Neophyte

Answer 13

(n.) a new convert, beginner, novice

Question 14

Perspicacity

Answer 14

(n.) keenness in observing and understanding

Question 15

Plenary

Answer 15

(adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members

Question 16

Surveillance

Answer 16

(n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

Question 17

Sylvan

Answer 17

(adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody

Question 18

Testy

Answer 18

(adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation

Question 19

Travesty

Answer 19

(n. ) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex;
(v. ) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion.

Question 20

Abject

Answer 20

(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved