Vocab unit 8

  1. an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness, spirit, a flair
    elan
  2. to cause to disappear, to scatter, dispel, to spend follishly, squander, to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
    dissipate
  3. to deny responsibility for or connection with
    disavow
  4. tending to promote or assist, helpful, favorable
    conducive
  5. to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text, to cleanse , purify
    expurgate
  6. impartial, calm, free from emotion
    disapassionate
  7. desmay, confusion
    consternation
  8. disagreenemt, sharp differnce of opinion
    dissension
  9. resembling a cor, or ox, sluggish
    bovine
  10. stinging, bitter in temper or tone
    acrimonious
  11. fat, having a large bulky body
    corpulent
  12. subordinate in cpacity or role, serving to promote some end, subimissively obedient
    subservient
  13. faithlessness, treachery
    perfidy
  14. based on an assumption or guess, used as a probisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation
    hypothetical
  15. to call into question, attack as false
    impugn
  16. hatred,, contempt, disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct
    odium
  17. immoderate, lacking in self-control inclement
    intemperate
  18. mean, low base
    ignoble
  19. inclined to nausea easily shocked or upset, excessively fastidious or refined
    squeamish
  20. open to easily influenced lacking in resistance
    susceptible
  21. an armored or protectce glove, a challenge to combat, two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them, an ordeal
    gauntlet
  22. to place in a lower position to assign refer, turn over, to banish
    relegate
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jgreengian
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Vocab unit 8
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vocab unit 8
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