Honors English 11 - Vocab VIII

Acrimonious

(adj) stinging, bitter in temper or tone

Bovine

(adj) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive (can be cow too)

Consternation

(n) dismay, confusion

Corpulent

(adj) fat; having a large, bulky body

Disavow

(v) to deny responsibility for or connection with

Dispassionate

(adj) impartial; calm, free from emotion

Dissension

(n) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

Dissipate

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

Expurgate

(v) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify

Gauntlet

(n) 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

Hypothetical

(adj) based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation

Ignoble

(adj) mean, low, base

Impugn

(v) to call into question; to attack as false

Intemperate

(adj) immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement

Odium

(n) hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

Perfidy

(n) faithlessness, treachery

Relegate

(v) to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish

Squeamish

(adj) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined

Subservient

(adj) subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end

Susceptible

(adj) open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance