VOCABULARY Flashcards
abject
(adj.) degraded; base contemptible, cringing servile
Synonyms - wretched, miserable, ignoble
Antonyms - noble, exalted
agnostic
(n.) one who believes that nothing be known about God (adj) without faith
Synonyms (n) doubter
Antonyms (n) believer
complicity
(n) involvement in wrongdoing; state of being accomplice
Synonyms - connivance, collusion
Antonyms - non-involvement, innocence
derelict
(n) someone or something that is abandoned (adj) left abandoned
Synonyms - (n) vagrant (adj) delinquent
Antonyms - (adj) punctilious, scrupulous
diatribe
(n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
Synonyms - harangue
Antonyms - panegyric, encomium
effigy
(n) a crude image of a despised person
Synonyms - figure, figurine
equity
inane
indictment
indunitable
intermittent
moot
motif
neophyte
perspicacity
plenary
surveillance
sylvan
testy
travesty
