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| abject | adj. degraded; base,contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| 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 and prolonged verbal attack |
| effigy | n. a crude image of a despised person |
| 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 |
| inane | adj. empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | n. the act of accusing; a formal accusation |
| indubitable | adj. certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| intermittent | adj. stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| moot | ads. 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 dominant 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; attended by all qualified members |
| surveillance | n. a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
| sylvan | adj. pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody |
| testy | adj. easily irritated, characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| 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 |
