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Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrimonious | Stinging or bitter in temper or tone |
| Bovine | Cowlike; slow or unresponsive |
| Consternation | Dismay; confusion |
| Corpulent | Fat; huge in mass/body |
| Disavow | Denial of responisibility, or connection with |
| Dispassionate | Inpartial; calm; emotion free |
| Dissention | Dissagrement, a sharp diffrence in oppinion |
| Dissipate | To cause to dissapear, scatter, dispell, spend foolishly, squander; to be extravigant in the persuit of pleasure |
| Expurgate | To remove objectiobable text; to cleanse or purify |
| Gauntlet | A protective glove; A challenge; A tunnle op people with weapons to beat passers |
| Hypothetical | Bassed on an assumption or guess; Used as a tentitive idea to guide investigation |
| Ignoble | Mean, low, base |
| Intemprate | Immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement |
| Odium | Intense hatrid, disgrace resulting from hateful conduct |
| Perfidy | Faithlessness, treachery |
| Relegate | To lower in posission; assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
| Squeamish | Inclined to nausea, easily shocked or upset; Excessively fastidious or refined |
| Subservient | Subordiant in capacity or role; Submisively obediant; Serving to promote some end |
| Susceptible | Open to; Easily influenced; lacking in resistence |