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Week Eight
Week Eight Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrimonious (adjective) | Stinging, bitter in temper or tone, caustic |
| Bovine (adjective) | Resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive, dull, slow |
| Consternation (noun) | Dismay, confusion, bewilderment |
| Corpulent (adjective) | Fat, overweight; having a large, bulky body |
| Disavow (verb) | To deny responsibility for or or connection with; to disown, disclaim |
| Dispassionate (adjective) | Impartial, unbiased; calm, free from emotion |
| Dissension (noun) | Disagreement, strife, sharp difference of opinion |
| Dissipate (verb) | To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
| Expurgate (verb) | To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify, purge |
| Gauntlet (noun) | 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; a dare or provocation |
| Hypothetical (adjective) | Based on assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
| Ignoble (adjective) | Mean, low, base, dishonorable |
| Impugn (verb) | To call into question, challenge; to attack as false |
| Intemperate (adjective) | Immoderate, lacking in self-control, excessive; inclement |
| Odium (noun) | Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| Perfidy (noun) | Faithlessness, treachery; betrayal, disloyalty |
| Relegate (verb) | To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over, to banish |
| Squeamish (adjective) | Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
| Subservient (adjective) | Subordinate in captivity or role, secondary; submissively obedient, servile; serving to promote some end |
| Susceptible (adjective) | Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance, vulnerable |
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