| 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, clam, free from emotion |
| dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| dissipate | to cause to disappear, to scatter, sipel, to spend foolishly, squander, 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 the;an ordeal |
| hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess;used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
| ignoble | mean, low, base |
| impugn | to call into question;attack as false |
| intemperate | immoderate, lacking in self control, inclement |
| odium | hatred, contempt, disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| perfidy | faithlessness, treachery |
| relegate | to place in a lower position |
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