Vocabulary-6 Flashcards

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  1. ) Abject
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Degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved.

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  1. ) Agnostic
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One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; without faith; skeptical.

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  1. ) Complicity
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Involvement in wrongdoing; the state of beings an accomplice.

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  1. ) Derelict
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Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty.

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  1. ) Diatribe
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A bitter and prolonged verbal attack.

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  1. ) Effigy
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A crude image of a despised person.

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  1. ) Equity
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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.

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  1. ) Inane
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Silly, empty of meaning or value.

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  1. )Indictment
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The act of accusing; a formal accusation

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  1. ) Indubitable
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Certain , not to be doubted or denied.

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  1. ) Intermittent
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Stopping and beginning again, sporadic.

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  1. ) Moot
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Open to discussion and debate, unresolved.

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  1. ) Motif
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A principle idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design.

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  1. ) Neophyte
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A new convert, beginner, novice.

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  1. ) perspicacity
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Keenness in observing and understanding.

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  1. ) Plenary
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Complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members.

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  1. ) Surveillance
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A watch kept over a person; careful,close, and discipline observation.

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  1. ) Sylvan
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Pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or locate in a forest; wooded, woody.

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  1. ) Testy
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Easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation.

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  1. ) travesty
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A grotesque or grossly inferior imitation.