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Vocab Chapter 8
Mr.Bauers
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English
11th Grade
02/25/2009

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Acrimonious
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Stinging, bitter in tone or temper
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Bovine
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Resembling a cow or ox:sluggish, unresponsive
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Conducive
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Tending to promote or assist:Helpful, favorable
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Consternation
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Dismay, confusion shock or amusement
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Corpulent
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Fat, Having a bulky body
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Disavow
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To deny responsibility for: deny connection with
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Dispassionate
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Impartial.calm. free from emotion
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Dissension
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Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion
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Dissipate
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To cause to disapear, to scatter, squander
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Elan
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An enthuastic vigor and liveliness
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Expurgate
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To remove objectionable words or passages from a written text
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Gauntlet
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Two lines of men armed with weapons, armored protective glove. bad situation
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Hypothetical
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based on a assumption or guess
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Ignoble
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Mean, low base, without honorable intentions
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Impugne
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To call into question, attack as false
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Intemperate
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immoderate, lacking in self-control
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Odium
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Hatred, contempt disgrace or infamy
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perfidy
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faithlessness, treachery, treason
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relegate
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to place in a lower position, to assign or refer
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squeamish
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inclined to nausea, easily shocked or upset
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Subservient
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subordinate in capacity or role
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Susceptible
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open to, easily influenced
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