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Sad-Ox G 6
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abject | (adj) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelievable |
agnostic | (n)one who believes that nothing can be known about god; a skeptic;(adj) without faith, skeptical |
complicity | (n) involvement in wrongdoing: the state of being an accomplice |
derelict | (n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected;(adj) left abandoned; neglectful of duty |
diatribe | (n) a bitter or prolonged verbal attack |
effigy | (n) a crude image of a despised person |
equity | (n) the state or quality of beingjust, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; somethingthat is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgageor other claim |
inane | (adj) silly, empty of meaning or value |
indictment | (n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
indubitable | (adj) certain, not to be douted or denied |
intermittent | (adj) stoppingand begging again, sporadic |
moot | (adj)open to discussion and debate, unresolved;(v) to bring up for discussion;(n) a hypothetical law case argued by students |
motif | (n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominate figure in a design |
neophyte | (n) a new convert, beginner, novice |
perspicacity | (n) keenness in observing and understanding |
plenary | (adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attened by all qualified members |
surveillance | (n) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observations |
sylvan | (adj) pertaining to or characteristics of forests; wooded; woody |
testy | (adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
travesty | (n) a grotesqueor grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, espicially the clothing of the opposite sex;(v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fassion |