AP3: Vocabulary Unit 6

Mrs. Nye (United States of America)
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  1. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
    degraded; contemptible; ignoble
  2. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
    (n) a skeptic; (adj) without faith; skeptical
  3. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
    involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
  4. derelict
    a person without a home, job, or property
    (n) something or someone abandoned or neglected; (adj) left abandoned; neglectful of one's duty
  5. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
    a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
  6. effigy
    a representation of a person
    a crude image of a despised person; unfavorable world leaders are often "burned in effigy"
  7. equity
    difference between value of a property and claims against it
    the state or quality of begin fair or just or impartial; equal treatment
  8. inane
    devoid of intelligence
    silly; empty of meaning or value
  9. indictment
    an accusation of wrongdoing
    the act of accusing; a formal accusation in a court
  10. indubitable
    too obvious to be doubted
    certain; undoubtable
  11. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
    sporadic
  12. moot
    open to argument or debate
    We usually use this word to mean the opposite of its actual definition, but "moot court" is a court where law students engage in arguing a topic, not one already decided.
  13. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
    can be a unifying idea in any type of art: music, painting, etc.
  14. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
    beginner; novice
  15. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
    keenness in observing or understanding
  16. plenary
    full in all respects
    absolute; attended by all qualified members
  17. surveillance
    close observation of a person or group
    careful and disciplined observation
  18. sylvan
    relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
    having the characteristics of a forest
  19. testy
    easily irritated or annoyed
    characterized by impatience and exasperation
  20. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
    (n) a grotesque or grotesquely inferior imitation; (v) to ridicule by imitating--caricature; parody
Created on Sun Nov 17 20:01:17 EST 2013

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