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Vocabulary Unit 8
English III Honors
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English
11th Grade
02/09/2012

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Acrimonious
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stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Bovine
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resmbling 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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Coruplent
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fat; having a large, bulky body
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Disavow
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to deny responsibility for or 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 disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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Elan
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an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness, spirit; a flair
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Expurgate
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to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify
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Gauntlet
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an armored or protective 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
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Hypothetical
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based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation
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Ignoble
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mean, low, base
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Impugn
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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; inclement
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Odium
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hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct
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Perfidy
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faithlessness, treachery
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Relegate
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to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish
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Squeamish
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inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined
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Subservient
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subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissively obidient
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Susceptible
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open to; easily infulenced; lacking in resistance
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Brigand
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a robber
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Iconoclastic
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a destroyer of images, particulary of established beliefs or institutions
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Perennial
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present at all seasons of the year; enduring
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