| A | B |
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| complicity | involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice |
| inane | silly, empty of meaning or value |
| agnostic | one who believes that nothing is known about God; without faith, skeptic |
| indictment | the act of accusing, a formal accusation |
| equity | the state or quality of being just, fair or impartial |
| abject | degraded, wretched; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved |
| diatribe | a bitter and prolonged verbal attack |
| intermittent | stopping and beginning again, sporadic |
| derelict | someone or something that is abandoned or neglected |
| effigy | a crude image of a despised person |
| indubitable | certain, not to be doubted or denied |
| travesty | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise; to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion |
| surveillance | a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation |
| meretricious | superficially attractive in a showy, cheap or vulgar way |
| neophyte | a new convert, beginner, novice |
| sylvan | pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; woody, wooded |
| moot | open to discussion and debate; unresolved; hypothetical law case argued by students |
| perpicacity | keenness in observing and understanding |
| testy | easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation |
| plenary | complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members |
| motif | a principal idea or feature; a repeated or dominant figure in a design |
| prestigious | having a highly favorable reputation, of high standing, commanding respect |
