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| Acrimonious | (adj.) Stinging, bitter in temper or tone |
| Bovine | (adj.) Resembling a cow or ox: sluggish, unresponsive |
| Consternation | (n.) Dismay, Confusion |
| Corpulent | (adj.) Fat; having a large, bulky body |
| Disavow | (v.) To deny responsibility for or connection with |
| Dispassionate | (adj.) Impartial; calm, free from emotion |
| Dissension | (n.) Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion |
| Dissipate | (v.) To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure |
| Expurgate | (v.) To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify |
| 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 |
| Hypothetical | (adj.) Based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation |
| Ignoble | (adj.) Mean, low, base |
| Impugn | (v.) To call into question; to attack as false |
| Intemperate | (adj.) Immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement |
| Odium | (n.) Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct |
| Perfidy | (n.) Faithlessness, treachery |
| Relegate | (v.) To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish |
| Squeamish | (adj.) Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined |
| Subservient | (adj.) Subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end |
| Susceptible | (adj.) Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance |
