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| abject | (adj.) degraded, wretched; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| agnostic | (n.) one who believes that nothing is 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 above |
| inane | (adj.) silly, 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, sporatic |
| moot | (adj.) 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 or feature; 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 |
