Unit 6
Unit 6 Vocabulary
Terms
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- testy
- (adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- surveillance
- (n) a watch kept over a person, careful, close, and disciplined observation
- inane
- (adj) silly, empty of meaning or value
- complicity
- (n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- 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
- effigy
- (n) a crude image of a despised person
- plenary
- (adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- derelict
- (n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
- moot
- (adj) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v) to bring up for discussion; (n) a hypothetical law case argue by students
- motif
- (n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
- indubitable
- (adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied
- sylvan
- (adj) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
- neophyte
- (n) a new convert, beginner, novice
- equality
- (n) 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 calm
- diatribe
- (n) a biter and prolonged verbal attack
- intermittent
- (adj) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- perspicacity
- (n) keenness in observing and understanding
- indictment
- (n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- travesty
- (n) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion