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
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 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 argued by students
Motif
(n.) a principle idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Neophyte
(n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
Perspicacity
(n.) keenness in observing and understanding
Plenary
(adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
Surveillance
(n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
Sylvan
(adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
Testy
(adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
Travesty
(n.) grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
