Vocabulary - Lesson 7/8

Aspersions:

• Attacks on one's character

• Moral disapproval

• Hateful or mocking laughter

• To banish or exclude

Compunction:

• Attacks on One's character

• A strong sense of uneasiness

• Hateful or mocking laughter

• Moral disapproval

Derision

• Attacks on one's character

• A strong sense of uneasiness

• Hateful or mocking laughter

• Moral disapproval

Disapprobation:

• Attacks on one's character

• Hateful or mocking laughter

• Moral disapproval

• To banish or exclude

Ostracize:

• A strong sense of uneasiness

• Hateful or mocking laughter

• Moral disapproval

• To banish or exclude

Rebuke:

• To criticize sharply

• An intense feeling of disgust

• To reject scornfully

• Bitterly harsh and stinging

Revulsion

• To criticize sharply

• An intense feeling of disgust

• Vulgar, coarse or foul-mouthed

• Bitterly harsh, stinging

Scurrilous

• To criticize sharply

• An intense feeling of disgust

• Vulgar, coarse, foul-mouthed

• To reject scornfully

Spurn:

• A sudden feeling of disgust

• Vulgar coarse, foul-mouthed

• To reject scornfully

• Intensely and bitterly harsh

Vitriolic

• To criticize sharply

• Vulgar, coarse, foul-mouthed

• To reject scornfully

• Intensely harsh and bitter