Learn and Retain Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 6 With This Word List and Quizlet

Word List

1. abject
   (adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
2. intermittent
   (adj.) stopping and beginning again, sporadic
3. agnostic
   (n.) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj.) without faith, skeptical
4. moot
   (adj.) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v.) to bring up for discussion; (n.) a hypothetical law case argued by students
5. complicity
   (n.) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
6. motif
   (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
7. derelict
   (n.) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
8. neophyte
   (n.) a new convert, beginner, novice
9. diatribe
   (n.) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
10. perspicacity
    (n.) keenness in observing and understanding
11. effigy
    (n.) a crude image of a despised person
12. plenary
    (adj.) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
13. 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
14. surveillance
    (n.) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
15. inane
    (adj.) silly, empty of meaning or value
16. sylvan
    (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody
17. indictment
    (n.) the act of accusing; a formal accusation
18. testy
    (adj.) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
19. indubitable
    (adj.) certain, not to be doubted or denied
20. travesty
    (n.) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion

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