AP Language Vocabulary Unit 8 Flashcards
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13362689057 | Acrimonious | stinging, bitter in temper or tone | 0 | |
13362689058 | Bovine | resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive | 1 | |
13362689059 | Consternation | dismay, confusion | 2 | |
13362689060 | Corpulent | fat; having a large, bulky body | 3 | |
13362689061 | Disavow | to deny responsibility for or connection with | 4 | |
13362689062 | Dispassionate | impartial; calm, free from emotion | 5 | |
13362689063 | Dissension | disagreement, sharp difference of opinion | 6 | |
13362689064 | Dissipate | to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure | 7 | |
13362689065 | Expurgate | to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify | 8 | |
13362689066 | Gauntlet | 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 | 9 | |
13362689067 | Hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation | 10 | |
13362689068 | Ignoble | mean, low, base | 11 | |
13362689069 | Impugn | to call into question; to attack as false | 12 | |
13362689070 | Intermperate | immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement | ![]() | 13 |
13362689071 | Odium | hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct | 14 | |
13362689072 | Perfidy | faithlessness, treachery | 15 | |
13362689073 | Relegate | to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish | 16 | |
13362689074 | Squeamish | inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined | 17 | |
13362689075 | Subservient | subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissively obedient | 18 | |
13362689076 | Susceptible | open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance | 19 |