Vocab Unit 1-6
Terms
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- Surveillance
- (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
- Derelict
- (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected (adj.) left abandonded; neglectful of duty
- Sylvan
- (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
- Indubitable
- (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied
- Motif
- (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme or element; a repeated or dominant figure in design
- Indictment
- (n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- Effigy
- (n.) a crude image of a despised person
- Abject
- (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
- Perspicacity
- (n.) keenness in observing and understanding
- Intermittent
- (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- Equity
- (n.) the state 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
- Agnostic
- (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic (adj.) without faith, skeptical
- Moot
- (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved (v.) to bring up for discussion (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students
- 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 and burlesque fashion
- Inane
- (adj.) silly, empty meaning or value
- Complicity
- (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- Neophyte
- (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
- Plenary
- (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- Testy
- (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- Diatribe
- (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack