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vocab unit 6 D G
Jenkins Vocabulary Unit 6 Definitions 12th Grade Level G
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abject | adj. degraded; base, contemptible, cringing, servile; compete 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. a 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 moeny value of a property abotu and beyond any mortgage or other claim |
| Inane | adj. silly, empty or 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 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. to watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined |
| Sylvan | adj. pertaining to or characteristic of forest; 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 |