Vocab Unit 6 -DEF
Terms
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- indictment
- (n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- travesty
- (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior animation; a desguise, esp. the clothing of the opp. sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
- testy
- (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- moot
- (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students
- neophyte
- (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
- agnostic
- (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) w/o faith, skeptical
- effigy
- (n.) a crude image of a despised person
- intermittent
- (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- equity
- (n.) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
- motif
- (n.) pricipal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
- diatribe
- (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
- inane
- (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value
- surveillance
- (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
- abject
- (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
- perspicacity
- (n.) keenness in observing and understanding
- complicity
- (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- derelict
- (n.) someone or somethingy that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
- indubitable
- (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied
- plenary
- (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- sylvan
- (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody