Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Vocab #8

abase: to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble; degrade.

abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner.

abomination: anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.

brusque: abrupt in manner; blunt; rough

saboteur: a person who commits or practices sabotage.

debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.

proliferate: to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively.

anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

nomenclature: a set or system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community, etc.

expurgate: to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

gauche: lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless

rapacious: given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.

paradox:a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. 

conundrum: a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words.

anomaly: an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.

ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory

rancorous: full of or showing rancor.

churlish: difficult to work or deal with, as soil.

precipitous: extremely or impassably steep:

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