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WCHS Unit 8-F
Question | Answer |
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expurgate | (v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify |
odium | (n.) hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
subservient | (adj.) subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end |
ignoble | (adj.) mean, low, base |
intemperate | (adj.) immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement |
hypothetical | (adj.) based on an assumption or guess, used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
disavow | (v.) to deny responsibility for or connection with |
consternation | (n.) dismay, confusion |
disssipate | (v.) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel: to spend foolishly. squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
susceptible | (adj.) open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
impugn | (v.) to call into question; to attack as false |
relegate | (v.) to place in a lower position, to assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
perfidy | (n.) faithlessness, treachery |
gauntlet | (n.) an armoured or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal |
dispassionate | (adj.). impartial; calm, free from emotion |
dissension | (n.) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
bovine | (adj.)resembling a cow or ox: sluggish, unresponsive |
corpulent | (adj.) fat; having a large, bulky body |
squeamish | (adj.) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
acrimonious | (adj.) stinging, bitter in temper or tone |