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