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Vocabulary unit 6
words, pos, definition
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English
12th Grade
01/15/2009

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Term
abject
Definition
ADJ
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating
Term
agnostic
Definition
NOUN
a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited in experience.
ADJ
asserting the uncertainity of all claims to knowledge
Term
complicity
Definition
NOUN
the state of being an accomplice, partnership or involvement in wrongdoing
Term
Derelict
Definition
ADJ
left or deserted, as by the owner or gaurdian, abdanoned
NOUN
a person abandoned by society, vagrant, bum
Term
Diatribe
Definition
NOUN
a butter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack or criticism
Term
effigy
Definition
NOUN
a represntation or image esp. sculptured as on a monument
Term
equity
Definition
NOUN
the quality of being fair or impartial, fairness or impartiality. Something that is fair and just, the monetary value of a preperty or business beyond any amounts owed on it in mortgages, claims, liens, etc.
Term
inane
Definition
ADJ
lacking sense, significance or ideas. silly, empty, void
NOUN
something that is empty or void.
Term
Indictment
Definition
NOUN
a formal accusation initiating a crimial case, presented by a grand jury and usually required for felonies and other serious crimes, any charge, accusation, serious criticism or cause for blame
Term
Indubitable
Definition
ADJ
that cannout be doubted, patently evident or certain, unquestionable
Term
Intermittent
Definition
ADJ
stopping or ceasing for a time, alternately ceasing and beginning again. alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly
Term
Meretricious
Definition
ADJ
alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions, tawdry, based on pretense, deception or insincerity
Term
Moot
Definition
NOUN
an assembly of the perople in early England exercising political, administrative and judicial powers.
ADJ
ope to discussion or debate
VERB
to present or interoduce (any point, subject or project) for discussion
Term
motif
Definition
NOUN
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc. esp. in a literary, artistic or musical work
a dominant idea or feature
Term
neophyte
Definition
NOUN
a beginner or novice, a person newly converted to a believe as a heathen, heretic or nonbeliever
Term
perspicacity
Definition
NOUN
keenness or mental perception and understanding, discernment, pentration
Term
plenary
Definition
ADJ
full, complete, entire, absolute
NOUN
meeting, or the like
Term
prestigious
Definition
ADJ
indicative of or conferring prestige, having a high reputation, honored, esteemed
Term
surveillance
Definition
NOUN
to watch kept over a person, group, etc. esp. over a suspect, prisoner of the like
Term
Sylvan
Definition
ADJ
of, pertaining to or inhabiting the woods, consisting of or abounding in woods or trees, made of trees, branches, boughs, etc.
NOUN
a person dwelling in a woodland regin, a mythical deity or spirt of the woods
Term
testy
Definition
ADJ
irritably impatient, touchy
Term
travesty
Definition
NOUN
literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment or subject matter
VERB
turn (a serious work or subject) to ridiculee by burlesquing, to imitate grotesquely or absudly.
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