Vocab unit 6

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)

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; beginner

Answer 14

neophyte

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)