Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 6

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abject

(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved

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agnostic

(n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical

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complicity

(n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice

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derelict

(n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty

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diatribe

(n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack

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effigy

(n.) a crude image of a despised person

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equity

(n.) 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

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inane

(adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value

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indictment

(n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation

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indubitable

(adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied

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intermittent

(adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic

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moot

(adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students

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motif

(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

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neophyte

(n.) a new convert, beginner, novice

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perspicacity

(n.) keenness in observing and understanding

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plenary

(adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members

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surveillance

(n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

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sylvan

(adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody

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testy

(adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation

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travesty

(n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion

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