Unit 8

Question 1

Acrimonious

Answer 1

Stinging, bitter in temper or tone

Question 2

Bovine

Answer 2

Resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive

Question 3

Consternation

Answer 3

Dismay, confusion

Question 4

Corpulent

Answer 4

Fat; having a large, bulky body

Question 5

Disavow

Answer 5

To deny responsibility for or connection with

Question 6

Dispassionate

Answer 6

Impartial; calm, free from emotion

Question 7

Dissension

Answer 7

Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

Question 8

Dissipate

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Expurgate

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Gauntlet

Answer 10

An armored 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

Question 11

Hypothetical

Answer 11

Based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation

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, contempt; 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, turn over; to banish

Question 18

Squeamish

Answer 18

Inclined to nausea, queasy, delicate, over sensitive, priggish

Question 19

Subservient

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Susceptible

Answer 20

Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance