Vocab 4-6
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- complicity
- involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- Concord
- a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
- derelict
- someone or somehting that is abandoned or neglected
- sophistry
- reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy
- diatribe
- a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
- Jocular
- humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
- Incumbent
- obligatory, required; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
- effigy
- a crude image of a despised person
- perspicacity
- keenness in observing and understanding
- Incarcerate
- to imprison, confine, jail
- Enervate
- to weaken or lessen the mental, moral,or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring
- indubitable
- certian,not to be doubted, too obvious to be doubted or denied
- Consummate
- complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection
- reputed
- according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance abd good reputation
- neophyte
- a new convert, beginner, novice
- sumptuous
- costly, rich, magnificent
- Frenetic
- frenzied, highly agitated
- serveillance
- a watch kept over a person; careful, close and desciplined observation
- figment
- a fabrication of the mind
- motif
- a principle idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
- Recumbent
- in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or restinig
- Pecuniary
- consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money
- indictment
- the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- Glean
- to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers
- agnostic
- one who believes that nothing vsn br known about God; a skeptick wihtout
- Depraved
- marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral pricinples
- sylvan
- pertaining to or charachteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
- travesty
- a grotesque or grossly iferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
- hallow
- to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor
- idosyncrasy
- a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
- nuance
- a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference
- Pusillanimous
- contemptible cowardly or mean-spirited
- Mordant
- biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
- plenary
- complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- inane
- silly, empty of meaning or value
- Acuity
- sharpness (particularily of the mind or senses)
- Bastion
- a fortified place, stronghold
- moot
- open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued
- Delineate
- to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorally
- equity
- 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
- fiat
- an arbitraty order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness
- overweening
- conceited, presumptious; excessive, immoderate
- panchant
- a strong attraction or inclinaiton
- unbiquitous
- present or existing everywhere
- mundane
- earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
- ignominy
- shame and disgrace
- testy
- easily irritated; characherized by impatience and exasperation
- fecund
- fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive
- Disarray
- disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder
- esoteric
- intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret
- garner
- to acquire as the resilt of effor; to gather and store away
- Nettle
- a prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severly
- Exigency
- urgency, pressure; urgent demand pressed, highly agitateding need; an emergency
- abject
- degreaded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
- Ludicrous
- ridiculous, laughable, absurd
- intermittent
- stopping and begginning again, sporadic
- Stratagem
- a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
- Flotsam
- floating debris; homeless, improverished people
- Grouse
- a type of game bird; a complaint; to complain, grumble
- Atrophy
- the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away