Unit 6 Flashcards Herbert
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- abject
- degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved (know all)
- agnostic
- one who believes that nothing can be known about god; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical
- complicity
- involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an acconplice
- derelict
- someone o something that is abandoned or neglected; left abondoned; neglectful of duty
- diatribe
- a bitter prolonged verbal attack
- effigy
- a crude image of a depised person
- equity
- 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 (know all)
- inane
- silly, empty of meaning or value
- indictment
- the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- indubitable
- certain, not to be doubted or denied
- intermittent
- stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- moot
- open to discussion and debate, unresolve; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students (know all)
- motif
- a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design ( know all)
- neophyte
- a new convert, beginner, novice
- perspicacity
- keenness in observing and understanding
- plenary
- complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified memebers (know all)
- surveillance
- a watch kept over a person; careful, close and disciplined observation
- sylvan
- pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
- testy
- easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- travesty
- a grotestque or grossly inferior imitation, a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion