Unit 8

Question 1

Acrimonious

Answer 1

Bitter in temper or tone.

Question 2

Bovine

Answer 2

Resembles a cow or ox, slow or sluggish.

Question 3

Consternation

Answer 3

Confusion, shock, amazement.

Question 4

Corpulent

Answer 4

Fat or Obese.

Question 5

Disavow

Answer 5

To deny responsibility for or connection with.

Question 6

Dispassionate

Answer 6

To be calm or free from emotion, unbiased.

Question 7

Dissension

Answer 7

Big disagreement; Sharp differences of opinion.

Question 8

Dissipate

Answer 8

To cause to disappear; To waste or get rid of.

Question 9

Expurgate

Answer 9

To censor or purge; To bleep out things.

Question 10

Gauntlet

Answer 10

An armed or protective glove; A challenge in medieval times.

Question 11

Hypothetical

Answer 11

Based on assumption; Imagining a situation.

Question 12

Ignoble

Answer 12

Mean, low, base; Like the Grinch.

Question 13

Impugn

Answer 13

To call into question; Challenging a call in a game might be to…

Question 14

Intemperate

Answer 14

Lacking in self-control, extreme.

Question 15

Odium

Answer 15

Collected hatred for what someone did to them; Villains might have…

Question 16

Perfidy

Answer 16

Portrayal, treason usually on relationship, country, or work; Traitor.

Question 17

Relegate

Answer 17

To demote, banish, or assign an inferior task; To downgrade or give penalty.

Question 18

Squeamish

Answer 18

Inclined to nausea; Oversensitive.

Question 19

Subordinate

Answer 19

Saying yes to everything.

Question 20

Susceptible

Answer 20

Open to, easily influenced by.