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Book F Vocab 8
Games for Vocab Lesson 8 Book F
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| elan | n. an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness, spirit; a flair; verve, dash, zest, panache, brio |
| dissipate | v. to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, sdquander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure; to disperse, strew, diffuse; to waste |
| disavow | v. to deny responsibility for or connection with; to disown, disclaim, retract, abjure |
| conducive | adj. tending to promote or assist, helpful, favorable; beneficial, contributive, fostering |
| expurgate | v. to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify; to purge, censor, bowdlerize |
| dispassionate | adj. impartial; calm, free from emotion; to disperse, strew, diffuse; to waste |
| consternation | n. dismay, confusion; shock, amazement, bewilderment |
| dissention | n. disagreement, sharp difference of opinion; strtife, discord, contention |
| bovine | adj. resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive;stolid, dull, slow, stupid |
| acrimonious | adj. stinging, bitter in temper or tone; biting, caustic, rancorous, hostile, peevish |
| corpulent | adj. fat; having a large, bulky body; overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly |
| subservient | adj. subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissive, obedient; secondary; useful; serviel, obsequious |
| perfidy | n. faithlessness, treachery; betrayal, disloyalty, treason, duplicity |
| hypothetical | adj. based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation; assumed, supposed, conjectural, conditional |
| impune | v. to call into question; attack as false; to challenge, deny, dispute, query, question |
| odium | n. hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct; abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy |
| intemperate | adj. immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement; ecxcessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate |
| ignoble | adj. mean, low, base; inferior, unworthy, dishonorable,sordid |
| squeamish | adj. inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined; nauseous, queasy; delicate, oversensitive; priggish |
| susceptible | adj. open to; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined; vulnerable to, receptive; impressionable |
| gauntlet | n. an armored or protective glove; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal; a dare, provocation; a trial, punishment |
| relegate | v. to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish; to transfer, consign; to demote, banish |
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