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Stadlier Oxford G
WCHS Unit 6-G
Word | Definition |
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abject | (adj) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile |
agnostic | (n) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj) without faith, skeptical |
complicity | (n) invlovement in wrongdoing; the state of being and 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 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) a 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 essentals; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
surveillance | (n) a watch kept of 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) easliy irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
travesty | (n) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a diguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |