Vocab 6

Abject

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, skeptical

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 of quality of being just, faire, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond and mortage 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 principal 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) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion