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CP/Honors IV
Unit 6
Term | Definition |
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abject | degraded; base, 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 wrongdoing; 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 same or quality of being just, fair or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value or 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 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 in observing and understanding |
plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
surveillance | a watch kept over a person; careful, close and disciplined observation |
sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody |
testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |