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Jenkins Vocabulary Unit 6 Definitions 12th Grade Level G

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