Level G unit 6
Vocabulary Worksop Level G Unit 6
Terms
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- plenary
- complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- intermittent
- stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- testy
- easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- motif
- a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in design
- indutbitable
- certain, not to be questioned or denied
- meretricious
- superficially attractive in a showy, cheap, or vulgar way; lacking sincerity; sham, spurious
- travesty
- (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a burlesque fashion
- prestigious
- having a highly favorable reputation, of high standing, commanding respect
- moot
- (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students
- agnostic
- (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic (adj.) without faith, skeptical
- indictment
- the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- effigy
- a crude image of a despised person
- sylvan
- pertaining to forests; wooded, woody
- inane
- silly, empty of meaning or value
- diatribe
- a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
- derelict
- (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
- abject
- degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
- neophyte
- a new convert, beginner, novice
- persipicacity
- keenness in observing and understanding
- surveilance
- a watch kept over a person careful and disciplined observation
- equity
- the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
- complicity
- involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice