Vocab Unit 8
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woodydogg15 on October 15, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 responsiblility for or connectoin with |
| dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion |
| dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| dissipate | to cause to dissappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squiander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
| expurgate | to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; 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 |
| hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct ingestigation |
| ignoble | mean, low, base |
| impugn | to call into question; to attack as false |
| intemperate | immoderate, lacking in self control; inclement |
| odium | hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| perfidy | faithlessness, treatchery |
| relegate | to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
| squeamish | inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
| subservient | subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end |
| susceptible | open to; easily incluenced; lacking in resistance |
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