| Term | Definition |
| acrimonious | stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
| bovine | resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive |
| consternation | dismay, confusion |
| corpulent | fat; having a large, bulky body |
| disavow | to deny responsibility for or connection with |
| dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion |
| dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| dissipate | to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable passages or words from a written; to cleanse, purify |
| gauntlet | an armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal |