| A | B |
|---|
| abject | degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic |
| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| derelict | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected |
| 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 |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| indictment | the act of accuing; a formal accusation |
| indubitable | certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again |
| moot | open to discussion and debate |
| motif | a principal idea, feature, theme |
| neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| pespicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials |
| surveillance | a watch kept over a person, careful, close |
| sylvan | pertaining to o characteristic of forets |
| testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation |
