| A | B |
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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 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 |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | the act of accusing; a formal accusaton |
| indubitable | certain, not to 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 |
