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| Acrimonious | (adj.) stinging, biting in temper or tone. Syn: biting, caustic, rancorous, hostile, peevish. Ant: gentle, warm, mild, friendly, cordial. Ex. She whirled to face me when I spoke, and her answer startled me by its ______ bluntness. |
| Bovine | (adj.) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive. Syn: stolid, dull, slow, stupid. Ant: alert, sharp, bright, keen, quick. Ex. After I told him what had happend, he sat there with a ______ expression and said nothing. |
| Consternation | (n.) dismay, confusion. Syn: shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay. Ant: calm, composure, aplomb. Ex. His father looked at the mess with ______ hardly knowing what to say first. |
| Corpulent | (adj.) fat; having a large, bulky body. Syn: overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly. Ant: slender, lean, spare, gaunt, emaciated. Ex. Though she had grown ______ with the years, the opera singer's voice and her way with a song were the same. |
| Disavow | (v.) to deny responsibility for or connection with. Syn: disown, disclaim, retract, abjure. Ant: acknowledge, admit, grant, certify. Ex. The suspect stubbornly continued to ______ any part in the kidnapping plot. |
| Dispassionate | (adj.) impartial; calm, free from emotion. Syn: unbiased, disinterested, cool, detached. Ant: committed, engaged, partial, biased. Ex. Being a neighbor but not quite a family friend, he was called in to give a ______ view of our plan. |
| Dissension | (n.) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion. Syn: strife, discord, contention. Ant: agreement, accord, harmony. Ex. The political party was torn by ______ and finally split into two wings. |
| Dissipate | (v.) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure. Syn: disperse, strew, diffuse, waste. Ant: gather, collect, conserve, husband. Ex. As chairman he is fair and open, but he ______ his energies on trivial things. |
| Expurgate | (v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify. Syn: purge, censor, bowdlerize. Ex. According to the unwritten law of journalism, the editor alone has the right to ______ the article. |
| Gauntlet | (n.) an armored or protective glove; a challenge; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal. Syn: dare, provocation, trial, punishment. Ex. In the Middle Ages, a knight threw down his ______ as a challenge, and another knight picked it up only if he accepted. |
| Hypothetical | (adj.) based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation.Syn: assumed, supposed, conjectural, conditional. Ant: actual, real, tested, substantiated. Ex. Science is not based on ______ assumptions, but on proven facts. |
| Ignoble | (adj.) mean, low, base. Syn: inferior, unworthy, dishonorable, sordid. Ant: admirable, praiseworthy, lofty, noble. Ex. Many people will agree that a noble purpose does not justify ignoble means. |
| Impugn | (v.) to call into question; to attack as false. Syn: challenge, deny, dispute, query, question. Ant: confirm, prove, verify, validate. Ex. You can ______ the senator's facts, but you cannot accuse her of concealing her intentions. |
| Intemperate | (adj.) immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement. Syn: excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate. Ant: moderate, restrained, cool and collected. Ex. Experience has taught her to control her ______ outbursts of anger. |
| Odium | (n.) hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct. Syn: abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy. Ant: esteem, admiration, approbation. Ex. Those eager to heap ______ on the fallen tyarnt learned that he had escaped in the night. |
| Perfidy | (n.) faithlessness, treachery. Syn: betrayal, disloyalty, treason, duplicity. Ant: faithfulness, loyalty, steadfastness. Ex. Rulers in Shakespeare's plays often find themselves armed against enemies but not against teh ______ of their friends. |
| Relegate | (v.) to palce in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over,; to banish. Syn: transfer, consign, demote, exile. Ant: promote, elevate, advance, recall. Ex. Even if they ______ him to a mere clerical job, he is determind to make his presence felt. |
| Squeamish | (adj.) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined. Syn: nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish. Ex. If I am called ______ for disliking the horror movie, what do we call those who say that they like it? |
| Subservient | (adj.) subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end. Syn: secondary, servile, obsequious, useful. Ant: primary, principal, bossy, domineering. Ex. The officers were taught to be respectful of but not blindly ______ to their superior's wishes. |
| Susceptible | (adj.) open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance. Syn: vulnerable, receptive, impressionable. Ant: resistant, immune. Ex. The trouble with being ______ to flattery is that you can never be sure that the flatterer is sincere. |
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