Untitled spreadsheet Sheet1 (3) Flashcards

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Acrimonious

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Bitter in temper or tone.

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Bovine

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Resembles a cow or ox, slow or sluggish.

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Consternation

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Confusion, shock, amazement.

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Corpulent

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Fat or Obese.

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Disavow

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To deny responsibility for or connection with.

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Dispassionate

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To be calm or free from emotion, unbiased.

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Dissension

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Big disagreement; Sharp differences of opinion.

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Dissipate

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

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Expurgate

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To censor or purge; To bleep out things.

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Gauntlet

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

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Hypothetical

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Based on assumption; Imagining a situation.

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Ignoble

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Mean, low, base; Like the Grinch.

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Impugn

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

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Intemperate

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Lacking in self-control, extreme.

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Odium

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

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Perfidy

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

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Relegate

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

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Squeamish

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Inclined to nausea; Oversensitive.

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Subordinate

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Saying yes to everything.

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Susceptible

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Open to, easily influenced by.