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Unit 6
English 3 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |
complicity | (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
derelict | (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
diatribe | (n.) bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
effigy | (n.) a crude image of a despised person |
equity | (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 claim |
inane | (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value |
indictment | (n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
indubitable | (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied |
intermittent | (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
moot | (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) hypothetical law case argued by students |
motif | (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
neophyte | (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice |
perspicacity | (n.) keenness in observing and understanding |
plenary | (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
surveillance | (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
sylvan | (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody |
testy | (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
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 |