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English #6

Terms

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plenary
complete in all aspects or essentials, absolute, attended by all qualified members
travesty
a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation, a disguise, aspecially the clothing of the opposite sex, to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
equity
the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial, fair and equal treatment, something that is fair, the money value of a propertyabove and beyond any morgtage or other claim
motif
a principal idea, feature, theme, or element, a repeated or dominant figure in a design
surveillance
a watch kept over a person, careful, close
abject
degraded, base, comtemptible, cringing, servile, complete and unrelieved
agnostic
one who believes that nothing can be known about God, a skeptic, without faith, skeptical
perspicacity
keenness in observing and understanding
testy
easily irritated, characterized by impatience and exasperation
derelict
someone or something that is abandoned or neglected, left abandoned, neglectful of duty
indictment
that act of accusing, a formal accusation
complicity
involvement in wrongdoing, the state of being an accomplice
effigy
a crude image of a despised person
inane
silly, empty of meaning or value
indubitable
certain, not to be doubted or denied
sylvan
pertaining to or characteristic of forests, living or located in a forest, wooded, woody
moot
open to discuttion and debate, unresolved, to bring up for discussion, a hypothetical law case argued by students.
intermittent
stopping and begginning again, sporadic
diatribe
a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
neophyte
a new convert, beginner, novice

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