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Sadlier G: Unit 6
Vocabulary Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abject | degraded; cringing, servile |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing can be known about God |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing |
| derelict | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| equity | the state r quality of being just, fair, or impartial; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | a formal accusation |
| indubitable | certain |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | open to discussion and debate, unresolved |
| motif | a principal idea, feature, theme, or element |
| neophyte | beginner, novice |
| perspicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute |
| surveillance | watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
| sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests |
| testy | easily irritated |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation |