Vocab UNIT 8

Acrimonious (adj)

Stinging; hostile

Bovine (adj)

Resembling a cow; sluggish or slow

Consternation (n)

Confusion; shock

Corpulent (adj)

fat; having a large bulky body

Disavow (v)

To disown; to deny connection with

Dispassionate (adj)

Unbiased; free from emotion

Dissension (n)

Disagreement; a sharp difference of opinion

Dissipate (v)

To scatter or disperse widely

Expurgate (v)

To censor; To remove objectionable passages or words from a text

Gauntlet (n)

a protective glove; a challenging dare issue; a trial or test