Vocabulary Unit 6
indubitable
(adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied
plenary
(adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute, attended by all qualified members
abject
(adj.) degraded; base contemptible: cringing, servile: complete and unrelieved.
testy
(adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
moot
(adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved (v.) to being up for the discussion (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students
sylvan
(adj.) pertaining to or characteristics of a forest; living or located in a forest, wooded
inane
(adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value
intermittent
(adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
diatribe
(n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
effigy
(n.) a crude image of a despised person
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
neophyte
(n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
surveillance
(n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close and disciplined observation
complicity
(n.) involvement in wrong doing; the state of being accomplice
perspicacity
(n.) keenness in observing and understanding
agnostic
(n.) one who believes that nothing is known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical
derelict
(n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned, neglectful of duty
indictment
(n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
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