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vocab unit 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acrimonious | adj; stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
| Bovine | adj; resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive |
| Consternation | noun; dismay, confusion |
| Corpulent | adj; fat; having a large, bulky body |
| Disavow | verb; to deny responsibility for or connection with |
| Dispassionate | adj; impartial; free from emotion. unemotional |
| dissension | noun; disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| Dissipate | verb; to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; |
| Expurgate | verb; to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; |
| Gauntlet | noun; an armored or protective glove; a challange to combat |
| hypothetical | adj; based on an assumption or guess; used as a tentative idea to direct an investigate |
| ignoble | adj; mean, low, base |
| impugn | verb; to call into question, to attack as false |
| Intemperate | adj; immoderate; lacking in self-control |
| Odium | noun; hatred, contempt; |
| perfidy | noun; faithlessness, treachery, untrustworthiness. |
| Relegate | verb; to place in a lower position; to banish; surrender |
| Squeamish | adj; inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; |
| Subservient | adj; subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissively obedient |
| Susceptible | adj; open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |