Vocab unit 6 Flashcards
Abject
(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
Agnostic
(n. ) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic
(adj. ) without faith, skeptical
Complicity
(n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
Derelict
(n. ) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
(adj. ) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
Diatribe
(n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
Effigy
(n.) a crude image of a despised person
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 any other claim
Inane
(adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value
Indictment
(n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
Indubitable
(adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied
Intermittent
(adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
Moot
(adj. ) open to discussion and debate, unresolved
(v. ) to bring up for discussion
(n. ) a hypothetical law case agued by students
Motif
(n.) a principle idea, feature, theme or element; a repeated dominant figure
Neophyte
(n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
Perspicacity
(n.) keenness in observing and understanding
