Vocab 5

Question 1

Complicity

Answer 1

the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing

Question 2

Derelict

Answer 2

N: a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant; bum.
Adj: neglectful of duty; delinquent; negligent.

Question 3

Diatribe

Answer 3

a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

Question 4

Effigy

Answer 4

a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument

Question 5

Inane

Answer 5

lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly

Question 6

Indubitable

Answer 6

that cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.

Question 7

Intermittent

Answer 7

stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again:

Question 8

Lethargy

Answer 8

he quality or state of being drowsy and dull, listless and unenergetic, or indifferent and lazy; apathetic or sluggish inactivity.

Question 9

Meretricious

Answer 9

alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.

Question 10

Moot

Answer 10

open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful

Question 11

Neophyte

Answer 11

a person newly converted to a belief, as a heathen, heretic, or nonbeliever; proselyte.

Question 12

Perspicacious

Answer 12

having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Question 13

Plenary

Answer 13

unqualified; absolute

Question 14

Sylvan

Answer 14

consisting of or associated with woods; wooded.

Question 15

Testy

Answer 15

easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered.

Question 16

Travesty

Answer 16

a false, absurd, or distorted representation of something

Question 17

Ubiquitous

Answer 17

present, appearing, or found everywhere.

Question 18

Utopian

Answer 18

modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic

Question 19

Vituperative

Answer 19

bitter and abusive.

Question 20

Abject

Answer 20

Utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating or wretched