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Chapter 6
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English
10th Grade
05/31/2009

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Abject
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(adj.) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and relieved, miserable
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Agnostic
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(n) One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj) without faith, skeptical, doubter
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Complicity
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(n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
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Derelict
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(n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj) left abandoned; neglectful of duty
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Diatribe
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(n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
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Effigy
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(n) a crude image of a despised person
syn: figure
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Equity
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(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 and mortgage or other claim
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inane
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(adj) silly, empty of meaning or value
syn. vapid, idiotic
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indictment
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(n) the act of accusing; a formal accusation

syn. charge or accusation

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Indubitable
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(adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied

syn. unquestionable, indisputable

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intermittent
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(adj) stopping and beginning again, sporadic

syn. random

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moot
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(adj) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v) to bring up for discussion; (n) a hypothetical law case argued by students

syn. (adj) debatable, questionable; (v) broach

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motif
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(n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
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neophyte
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(n) a new convert, beginner, novice

syn. tenderfoot, tyro, rookie

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perspicacity
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(n) keenness in observing and understanding

 

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plenary
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(adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members

syn.

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Survelillance
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(n) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
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Sylvan
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(adj) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody

 

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testy
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(adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation

syn. irritable

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Travesty
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(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

 

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