Vocabulary Unit 4

Acrimonious

• Having a large body
• Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
• Impartial
• Disagreement

Bovine

• Resembling a cow or ox
• mean, low, base
• hatred, contempt
• easily influenced

Consternation

• Disagreement
• An armored or protective glove
• To attack as false 
• Dismay, confusion

Corpulent

• Mean, low, base
• Slim, skinny
• Fat; having a large, bulky body
• To cause to disappear 

Disavow

• Lacking in resistance
• Easily shocked or upset
• To assign
• To deny responsibility for or connection with 

Dispassionate

• Impartial; calm, free from emotion
• Based on assumption
• Disgrace or infamy
• Faithlessness

Dissension

• Calm, composure
• Gentle, warm 
• Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion 
• Bitter in temper or tone

Dissipate 

• Conserve, collect
• To cause to disappear
• Betrayal, treason 
• Turn over, to banish

Expurgate

• To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text
• Resistant, immune
• Easily influenced
• Submissively obedient 

Gauntlet

• Purge, censor
• An armored or protective glove
• Gather, collect
• Turn over, to banish