Unit 6 Vocabulary 12th grade

Andrew P. (United States of America)
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  1. abject
    of the most contemptible kind
  2. agnostic
    a person who claims the existence of God is unknowable
  3. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
  4. derelict
    a person without a home, job, or property
  5. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  6. effigy
    a representation of a person
  7. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  8. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  9. indictment
    an accusation of wrongdoing
  10. indubitable
    too obvious to be doubted
  11. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
  12. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  13. moot
    of no legal significance, as having been previously decided
  14. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  15. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  16. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
  17. plenary
    full in all respects
  18. prestigious
    having an excellent reputation; respected
  19. surveillance
    close observation of a person or group
  20. sylvan
    relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
  21. testy
    easily irritated or annoyed
  22. travesty
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
Created on Sun Feb 27 21:18:15 EST 2011 (updated Mon Feb 28 09:57:08 EST 2011)

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