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Eng: Chapter 8 Vocab
Stadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Level F
Word | Definition |
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acrimonious | stinging; bitter in temper or tone |
bovine | resembling a cow; sluggish, unresponsive |
consternation | dismay, confusion |
corpulent | fat; having a large, bulky body |
disavow | to deny responsibility for or connection with. |
dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion |
dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
dissipate | to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly |
expurgate | to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify |
gauntlet | an armored protective glove; challenge; an ordeal; a 2 lines of men with weapons with which to beat a person running between them |
hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess |
ignoble | mean, low, base |
impugn | to call into question; to attack as false |