Unit 8

Question 1

Acrimonious

Answer 1

Stinging; bitter in temper or tone

Question 2

Bovine

Answer 2

Cowlike; sluggish or unresponsive

Question 3

Consternation

Answer 3

Dismay or confusion

Question 4

Corpulent

Answer 4

Fat; having a large, bulky body

Question 5

Disavow

Answer 5

To deny responsibility or connection with

Question 6

Dispassionate

Answer 6

Impartial; calm or free from emotion

Question 7

Dissension

Answer 7

Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

Question 8

Dissipate

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Expurgate

Answer 9

To cleanse or purify; to remove objectionable phrases from written text

Question 10

Gauntlet

Answer 10

Armored glove; challenge; medieval torture; ordeal

Question 11

Hypothetical

Answer 11

Based on an assumption, prediction or guess

Question 12

Ignoble

Answer 12

Mean, low, base

Question 13

Impugn

Answer 13

To call into question; to attack as false

Question 14

Intemperate

Answer 14

Immoderate; lacking in self control; inclement

Question 15

Odium

Answer 15

Hatred, compempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct.

Question 16

Perfidy

Answer 16

Faithlessness; treachery

Question 17

Relegate

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Squeamish

Answer 18

Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset

Question 19

Subservient

Answer 19

Subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote to some end

Question 20

Susceptible

Answer 20

Open to; easily influenced; vulnerable