vocab test 6 Flashcards
abject
Degraded, bass, contemptible, cringing, servile, complete and unrelieved
agnostic
One who believes that nothing can be known about God, a skeptic, without faith, skeptical
complicity
Involvement in wrong doing, the state of being an accomplice
derelict
Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected, left abandoned, neglectful of duty
diatribe
A bitter and prolonged verbal attack
effigy
A crude image of a despised 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
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, unresolved, to bring up for discussion, a hypothetical law case argued by students
motif
A principal idea, feature, theme, or element, a repeated or dominant figure in a design
neophyte
A new convert, beginner, novice
perspicacity
keenness and observing and understanding
