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Enhance Your Vocabulary with Challenging Words and Definitions

Dive into the world of complex vocabulary with this lesson focusing on 12 challenging words. Discover their meanings, synonyms, and appropriate contexts, including terms like 'acrimonious,' 'disavow,' and 'perfidy.' Perfect for students and language enthusiasts seeking to broaden their vocabulary. Each word includes its part of speech, an example, and links to further resources. Expand your linguistic prowess, improve your writing, and articulate your thoughts more effectively.

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Enhance Your Vocabulary with Challenging Words and Definitions

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  1. Unit 8 Level F

  2. Acrimonious • (adj.) stinging, bitter in temper or tone

  3. Bovine • (adj.) resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive

  4. Consternation • (n.) dismay, confusion

  5. Corpulent • (adj.) fat; having a large, bulky body

  6. Disavow • (v.) to deny responsibility for or connection with

  7. Dispassionate • (adj.) impartial; calm, free from emotion

  8. Dissension • (n.) disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

  9. Dissipate • (v.) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander

  10. Expurgate • (v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkpWk8FJsys

  11. 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjE2sxCQ_rU

  12. Hypothetical • (adj.) based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct

  13. Ignoble • (adj.) mean, low, base

  14. Impugn • (v.) to call into question; to attack as false

  15. Intemperate • (adj.) immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement

  16. Odium • (n.) hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

  17. Perfidy • (n.) faithlessness, treachery

  18. Relegate • (v.) to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over, to banish

  19. Squeamish • (adj.) inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined

  20. Subservient • (adj.) subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end

  21. Susceptible • (adj.) open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance

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