Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acrimonious | (adj) stinging, bitter in temper or tone biting, caustic, rancorous, hostile, peevish |
| bovine | (adj) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive -behavior stolid, dull, slow, stupid |
| consternation | (n) dismay, confusion -reaction shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay |
| corpulent | (adj) fat; having a large, bulky body overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly |
| disavow | (v) to deny responsibly for or connection with disown, disclaim, retract, abjure |
| dispassionate | (adj) impartial; calm, free from emotion -judge unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached |
| dissension | (n) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion -group split strife, discord, contention |
| dissipate | (v) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure -gas/cloud disperse, strew, diffuse, waste |
| expurgate | (v) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify purge, censor, bowdlerize |
| gauntlet | (n) a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal dare, provocation, trial, punishment |
| hypothetical | (adj) based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation assumed, supposed, conjectural, conditional |
| ignoble | (adj) mean, low, base -person vs character inferior, unworthy, dishonorable, sordid |
| impugn | (v) to call into question; to attack as false challenge, deny, dispute, query, question |
| intemperate | (adj) immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement -response excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate |
| odium | (n) hatred, contempt; to disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy |
| perfidy | (n) faithlessness, treachery -act of betrayal, disloyalty, treason, duplicity |
| relegate | (v) to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish transfer, consign, demote, exile |
| squeamish | (adj) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish |
| subservient | (adj) subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end -to serve under secondary, servile, obsequious, useful |
| susceptible | (adj) open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance vulnerable, receptive, impressionable |
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