8.1 english vocab

acrimonious
- adj
- stinging, biting in temper or tone
bovine
- adj
- resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive
consternation
- noun
- dismay, confusion
corpulent
- adj
- fat; having a large, bulky body
disavow
- verb
- to deny responsibility for or connection with
dispassionate
- adj
- impartial; calm, free from emotion
dissension
- noun
- disagreement, sharp difference of opinion
dissipate
- verb
- to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend follishly, squander
expurgate
- verb
- to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; cleanse, purify
gauntlet
- noun
- armored or protective glove; a challenge; dare, trial, punishment

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8.1 english vocab

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unit 8 part 1

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2010-12-07T00:56:29Z

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