Vocab 8 exam review Tools A B elan spirit dissipate to cause to disappear; to scatter disavow to deny responsibility for or connection with conducive helpful expurgate to cleanse, purify dispassionate impartial; calm consternation confusion dissension disagreement bovine resembling a cow or ox; sluggish acrimonious stinging, bitter in temper corpulent fat subservient serving to promote some end perfidy faithlessness; treachery hypothetical based on an assumption or guess impugn to call into question odium hatred, contempt intemperate immoderate, lacking in self-control ignoble mean, low, base susceptible open to gauntlet armored glove squeamish easlity shocked or upset relegate to place in a lower position; to assign