Unit 8 SAT Vocabulary

inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined

stinging, bitter in temper or tone

to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander

dismay, confusion

to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify

hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct

open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance

challenge; two lines of men with weapons to beat a person forced to run between them; ordeal

impartial; calm, free form emotion

to deny responsibility for or connection with

disagreement, sharp difference of opinion

resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive

faithlessness, treachery

immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement

fat; having a large, bulky body

subordinate in capacity or role; submissively obedient; serving to promote some end

based on an assumption; provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation

mean, low, base

to call into question; to attack as false

to place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish