Unit 6 Vocabulary Flashcards
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Abject
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- Adjective
- Degraded
- Base, contemptible
- Cringing, servile
- Complete and unrelieved
2
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Agnostic
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- Noun
- One who believes that nothing can be known about God
- A Skeptic
- Adjective
- Without faith, skeptical
3
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Complicity
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- Noun
- Involvement in wrongdoing
- The state of being an accomplice
4
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Derelict
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- Noun
- Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
- Adjective
- Left abandoned
- Neglectful of duty
5
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Diatribe
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- Noun
- A bitter and prolonged verbal attack
6
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Effigy
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- Noun
- A crude image of a despised person
7
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Equity
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- Noun
- The state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial
- Fair and equal treatment
- Something that is fair
- Money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
8
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Inane
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- Adjective
- Silly, empty of meaning or value
9
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Indictment
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- Noun
- The act of accusing; a formal accusation
10
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Indubitable
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- Adjective
- Certain, not to be doubted or denied
11
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Intermittent
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- Adjective
- Stopping and beginning again, sporadic
12
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Moot
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- Adjective
- Open to discussion and debate, unresolved
- Verb
- To bring up for discussion
- Noun
- A hypothetical law case argued by students
13
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Motif
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- Noun
- A principal idea, feature, theme, or element
- A repeated or dominant figure in a design
14
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Neophyte
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- Noun
- A new convert, beginner, novice
15
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Perspicacity
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- Noun
- Keenness in observing and understanding
