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SAT Vocabulary Unit 8. From Jerome Shostak’s Vocabulary Workshop. acrimonious. http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/apiryist.asp. acrimonious. Adjective: Stinging; bitter in temper or tone Biting Caustic Rancorous Hostile. bovine.
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SAT Vocabulary Unit 8 From Jerome Shostak’s Vocabulary Workshop
acrimonious http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/apiryist.asp
acrimonious • Adjective: Stinging; bitter in temper or tone • Biting • Caustic • Rancorous • Hostile
bovine http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/11/Angry-Cow
bovine • Adjective: resembling a cow or ox • Sluggish • Unresponsive • Stolid • Dull • Slow
consternation http://www.freeze.com/Content/Item.aspx?pid=3659
consternation • Noun: Dismay • Confusion • Shock • Amazement • Bewilderment • Dismay
corpulent http://caveviews.blogs.com/cave_news/health/index.html
corpulent • Adjective: Fat • Having a large, bulky body • Overweight • Heavy • Obese • Stout • Portly
disavow http://www.rickmaybury.com/bootpages/other/sixties4.htm
disavow • Verb: To deny responsibility for or connection with • Disown • Disclaim • Retract • Abjure
dispassionate http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesec/346510276/
dispassionate • Adjective: Impartial • Calm • Free from emotion • Unbiased • Disinterested • Cool • Detached
dissension http://www.vertex.umea.com/nr3-97/insant.html
dissension • Noun: Disagreement • Sharp difference of opinion • Strife • Discord • Contention
dissipate http://qd.typepad.com/5/2005/12/disappearing_ac.html
dissipate • Verb: to cause to disappear • To scatter, dispel • To spend foolishly • Squander • To be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure • Disperse • Strew • Diffuse • Waste http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/business/business_concepts/money/2529353_flying_money.php?id=2529353
expurgate http://www.outlar.com/flyer.php?flyer=Bleep@CarlingAcademy&sides=Both&id=2420
expurgate • Verb: To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text • To cleanse, purify • Purge • Censor • Bowdlerize
gauntlet http://www.answers.com/topic/running-the-gauntlet
gauntlet • Noun: 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, trial • Punishment • Provocation www.googleimages.com/gauntlet
hypothetical http://footlightnotes.tripod.com/20040221home.html
hypothetical • Adjective: Based on a assumption or guess • Used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation • Assumed • Supposed • Conjectural • Conditional
ignoble http://www.answers.com/topic/villain
ignoble • Adjective: Mean, low, base • Inferior • Unworthy • Dishonorable • Sordid
impugn http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/stories/MYSA110806.BKNspurs.photo4.1bc390b3.html
impugn • Verb: To call into question • To attack as false • Challenge • Deny • Dispute • Query • Question
intemperate http://graphics.stanford.edu/~erang/Album/Other_Album/tn/monkey_makeup.jpg.html
intemperate • Adjective: Excessive • Immoderate • Lacking in self-control • Inclement • Extreme • Unrestrained • Inordinate http://www.nebraskastorms.com/light.htm
odium http://www.republicanvoices.org/hate_mail.html
odium • Noun: Hatred • Contempt • Disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct • Abhorrence, • Shame • Ignominy http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/nats/t/WalkOfShame.html
perfidy http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/category/miscellaneous/
perfidy • Noun: Treachery • Faithlessness • Betrayal • Disloyalty • Treason • Duplicity http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/traitor_gifts.asp
relegate http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/r/relegate.asp
relegate • Verb: To place in a lower position • To assign, refer, turn over • To banish • Transfer • Consign • Demote • Exile http://www.textbookx.com/detail-book-0802118267.html?SID=a93407a4ace863001daa718b4b69e40c
squeamish http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/squeamish_gifts.asp
squeamish • Adjective: Inclined to nausea • Easily shocked or upset • Excessively fastidious or refined http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006B2A2O http://www.freefever.com/freeclipart/animal/mouse.html
subservient http://gradualdazzle.blogspot.com/2006/06/cowtow-or-kowtow.html
subservient • Adjective: Subordinate in capacity or role • Submissively obedient • Serving to promote some end • Secondary • Servile • Obsequious • Useful http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/y/yes-man.asp
susceptible http://www.fotosearch.de/ARP105/allergy/
susceptible • Adjective: Open to • Easily influenced • Lacking in resistance • Vulnerable • Receptive • Impressionable http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/pinocchio/16.jpg
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