Vocabulary Unit 6

Question 0

Agnostic

Answer 0

One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic, without faith, skeptical

Question 1

Abject

Answer 1

Degraded; base; contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved

Question 2

Complicity

Answer 2

Involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice

Question 3

Derelict

Answer 3

Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty

Question 4

Diatribe

Answer 4

A bitter and prolonged verbal attack

Question 5

Effigy

Answer 5

A crude image of a despised person

Question 6

Equity

Answer 6

The state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of the property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim

Question 7

Inane

Answer 7

Silly, empty of meaning or value

Question 8

Indictment

Answer 8

The act of accusing; a formal accusation

Question 9

Indubitable

Answer 9

Certain, not to be denied

Question 10

Intermittent

Answer 10

Stopping and beginning again, sporadic

Question 11

Moot

Answer 11

Open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; hypothetical law case argued by students

Question 12

Motif

Answer 12

The principal idea, feature, theme, element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

Question 13

Neophyte

Answer 13

A new convert, beginner, novice

Question 14

Perspicacity

Answer 14

keenness in observing and understanding

Question 15

Plenary

Answer 15

Complete in all aspects or essential; absolute; attended by all qualified members

Question 16

Surveillance

Answer 16

I watch kept over your person; careful, close, and disciplined

Question 17

Sylvan

Answer 17

Pertaining to or characterized of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody

Question 18

Testy

Answer 18

Easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation

Question 19

Travesty

Answer 19

Grotesque were grossly inferior imitation; A disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by irritating in a broad or burlesque fashion