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Travesty

Neophyte

Equity

Motif

Inane Perspicacity

Testy Moot

Derelict

Indictment

Abject

Effigy

Surveillance

Indubitable

Complicity

Intermittent

Agnostic

Plenary

Diatribe

Sylvan

One who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic

- Without faith, doubter

AGNOSTIC

Involvement in wrongdoing; to be an accomplice

- abet, connive; collusion

COMPLICITY

Someone or something that is abandoned or neglected;

- vagrant, remiss, delinquent

DERELICT

The state or quality of being just, fair, equal treatment

Money value of a property above and beyond a mortgage or other claim

EQUITY

Degraded, base, contemptible; cringing, servile

- wretched, miserable, ignoble; sheer, utter

ABJECT

A crude image of a despised person

-figure, figurine; likeness

EFFIGY

Silly, empty of meaning or value

- vapid, idiotic, fatuous, moronic

INANE

A principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

MOTIF

A bitter and prolonged verbal attack

-tirade, harangue

DIATRIBE

Certain; not to be doubted or denied

- unquestionable; indisputable

INDUBITABLE

Stopping and starting again; sporadic

- spasmodic, random

INTERMITTENT

The act of accusing; formal accusation

- charge, accuse

INDICTMENT

Open to discussion and debate; unresolved

-questionable

MOOT

A new convert; beginner, novice

-rookie

NEOPHYTE

A grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; parody, caricature, farce

- To ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion

TRAVESTY

Keenness in observing and understanding; acuity

- discernment, acumen

PERSPICACITY

Complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute

- unlimited, attended by all members

PLENARY

Pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest

- wooded, arcadian, forested

SYLVAN

Easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation

- irritable, peevish, petulant

TESTY

A watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

- monitor; scrutiny

SURVEILLANCE