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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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| Abject | (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved. Syn: wretched, miserable, ignoble, sheer, utter. Ant: lofty, noble, exalted. Ex. In the American dream, those who work hard can escape lives of ______ poverty. |
| Agnostic | (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical. Syn: (n.) doubter. Ant: (n.) believer. Ex. Although he was a confirmed ______ he supported the rights of others to practice their religion. |
| Complicity | (n.) involement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice. Syn: connivance, collusion. Ant: noninvolvement, innocence. Ex. If you know a crime is going to be committed but do nothing to prevent it, you may be accused of ______. |
| Derelict | (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj>0 left abandoned; neglectful of duty. Syn: (n.) vagrant; (adj.) remiss, delinquent. Ant: (adj.) punctilious, conscientious, scrupulous. Ex. The family complained about the unsightly collection of ______ cars in their neighbor's driveway. |
| Diatribe | (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack. Syn: harangue, tirade. Ant: panegyric, encomium, eulogy. Ex. The senator's speech was more of a ______ than a reasoned address. |
| Effigy | (n.) a crude image of a despised person. Syn: figure, figurine, likeness. Ex. The night before the battle, the troops burned the despised enemy leader in ______. |
| 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. Syn: justice, fairness, impartiality. Ant: injustice, unfairness, bias, prejudice. Ex. Prompted by considerations of _______, the father decided to divide his estate equally among his children. |
| Inane | (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value. Syn: vapid, idiotic, moronic, fatuous. Ant: sensible, meaningful, profound. Ex. The politician made an ______ reply to the interviewer's probing question. |
| Indictment | (n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation. Syn: charge, accusation. Ex. The Grand Jury delivered the ______ for murder after deliberating in secret for two weeks. |
| Indubitable | (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied. Syn: unquestionable, indisputable. Ant: questionable, debatable, dubious. Ex. You cannot argue with ______ truths. |
| Intermittent | (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic. Syn: fitful, spasmodic, random. Ant: continuous, uninterrupted. Ex. The pulled muscle in her back gave her ______ pains for about a week. |
| Moot | (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students. Syn: (adj.) debatable, questionable; (v.) broach. Ant: (adj.) undebatable, indisputable, self-evident. Ex. The class agreed that the question of whether Jefferson should have retaliated sooner against the Barbary Pirates was a ______ point. |
| Motif | (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design. Ex. The collector admired the unusual Asian ______ that was woven into the fabric of the tapestry. |
| Neophyte | (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice. Syn: tenderfoot, tyro, rookie. Ant: veteran, past master, expert, pro. Ex. In comparision to an experienced wilderness hiker, he is a mere ______ in the woods. |
| Perspicacity | (n.) keenness in observing and understanding. Syn: acuity , acument, discernment. Ant: dullness, obtuseness. Ex. The birdwatcher scans the surrounding trees and fields with the same ______ as a hawk looking for prey. |
| Plenary | (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members. Syn: unlimited, unrestricted. Ant: limited, restricted, incomplete. Ex. Because of its importance, the case was presented at a ______ session of the Superior Court. |
| Surveillance | (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation. Syn: observation, scrutiny, monitoring. Ex. The police kept the suspect under strict ______ after she was released due to alck of evidence. |
| Sylvan | (adj.) pertaining to or characteristice of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody. Syn: forested, arcadian. Ex. ONce upon a time, HAnsel and Gretel walked down a ______ path, leaving only breadcrumbs in their wake. |
| Testy | (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation. Syn: irritable, peevish, waspish, petulant. Ant: even-tempered, imperturbable, unexcitable. Ex. the lawyer's ______ remarks during cross-examinationprobably affected her credibility with the jury. |
| Travesty | (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating a in a broad or burlesque fashion. Syn: (n.) burlesque, parody, caricature, farce. Ex. The Restorian dramatists ______ the snobbery of the upper classes in their satirical comedies. |
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