Vocab Week 6 Flashcards
One who believe that nothing can be known about God, a skeptic
Agnostic
S: doubter
A: believer
Degraded; base, contemptible; cringing? Servile, complete and unrelieved
Abject
S: wretched, miserable, ignoble, utter
A: lofty, exalted
Involvement in wrongdoing; that of being an accomplice
Complicity
S: connivance, collusion
A: noninvolvement, innocence
Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
Derelict
S: vagrant, remiss, delinquent
A: punctilious, conscientious, scrupulous
A bitter and prolonged verbal attack
Diatribe
A crude image of a despised person
Effigy
The state or query of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
Equity
Silly, empty of meaning or value
Inane
The act of accusing; a formal accusation
Indictment
Certain, not to be doubted or denied
Indubitable
Stopping and beginning again, sporadic
Intermittent
Open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to deliberate assembly; a hypothetical law case argued by students (moot court)
Moot
A principal idea, feature, theme, or element
Motif
A new convert, beginner, novice
Neophyte
Keenness in observing and understanding
Perspicacity
