Unit 8

Question 0

Bovine

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Adj. resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive

Question 1

Acrimonious

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Adj. stinging, bitter in temper or tone

Question 2

Conducive

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Adj. tending to promote or assist, helpful favorable

Question 3

Consternation

Answer 3

N. dismay confusion

Question 4

Corpulent

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Adj. fat having a large bulky body

Question 5

Disavow

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V. To deny responsibility for or connection with

Question 6

Dispassionate

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Adj. Impartial, calm, free from emotion

Question 7

Dissension

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N. Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

Question 8

Dissipate

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V. To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel, spend foolishly, squander, to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure

Question 9

Elan

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N. an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness, spirit; a flair

Question 10

Expurgate

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V. To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify

Question 11

Gauntlet

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N. an armed or protective glove; a challenge to combat; two lines of men with weapons with which to beat a person forced to rub bw them. An ordeal

Question 12

Hypothetical

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Adj. based on an assumption or guess; provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation

Question 13

Ignoble

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Adj. mean low base

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Impugn

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V. To call into question; attack as false

Question 15

Intemperate

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Adj. immoderate, lacking in self control, inclement

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Odium

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Hatred, contempt,

Disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

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Perfidy

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N. faithlessness, treachery

Question 18

Relegate

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V. To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over, banish

Question 19

Squeamish

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Adj. incline to nausea, easily shocked or upset, excessively fastidious or refined

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Subservient

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Adj. subordinate in capacity or role. Serving to promote some end, submissively obedient

Question 21

Susceptible

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Adj. open to, easily influenced; lacking in resistance

Question 22

Brigand

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N. A robber

Question 23

Iconoclastic

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Adj. A destroyer of established beliefs or institutions

Question 24

Perennial

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Adj. present at all seasons of the yr, enduring