Vocab Unit 6

Question 1

abject

Answer 1

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

Question 2

agnostic

Answer 2

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

Question 3

complicity

Answer 3

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

Question 4

derelict

Answer 4

(n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (ad) left abandoned; neglectful of duty

Question 5

diatribe

Answer 5

(n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

Question 6

effigy

Answer 6

(n) a crude image of a despised person

Question 7

equity

Answer 7

(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 other claim

Question 8

inane

Answer 8

(adj) silly, empty of meaning or value

Question 9

indictment

Answer 9

(n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation

Question 10

indubitable

Answer 10

(adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied

Question 11

intermittent

Answer 11

(adj) stopping and beginning again, sporadic

Question 12

moot

Answer 12

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