Unit 6 Vocab

Question 1

Involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice

Answer 1

Complicity (n)

Question 2

Silly, empty of meaning

Answer 2

Inane (adj)

Question 3

One who doubts the existence of God; skeptical

Answer 3

Agnostic (n, adj)

Question 4

A formal accusation

Answer 4

Indictment (n)

Question 5

The quality of being just; fair or equal treatment; the money value of property above its mortgage

Answer 5

Equity (n)

Question 6

Degraded, wretched

Answer 6

Abject (adj)

Question 7

Bitter and prolonged verbal attack; a rant

Answer 7

Diatribe (n)

Question 8

Stopping and beginning again, sporadic

Answer 8

Intermittent (adj)

Question 9

Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected, neglectful of duty

Answer 9

Derelict (n)

Question 10

A crude image of a despised person

Answer 10

Effigy (n)

Question 11

Certain; without doubt

Answer 11

Indubitable (adj)

Question 12

Grotesque imitation to ridicule by imitating in a rude fashion

Answer 12

Travesty (n)

Question 13

A watch kept over a person, place, or thing

Answer 13

Surveillance (n)

Question 14

New convert; a beginner

Answer 14

Neophyte (n)

Question 15

Filled with trees

Answer 15

Sylvan (adj)

Question 16

Open to discussion; unresolved, to bring up for discussion

Answer 16

Moot (adj)

Question 17

Keenness in understanding

Answer 17

Perspicacity (n)

Question 18

Irritable

Answer 18

Testy (adj)

Question 19

Complete; absolute

Answer 19

Plenary (adj)

Question 20

A principal idea; a repeated image

Answer 20

Motif (n)