Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Vocabulary #8

abase: to lower; to put or bring down; degrade
abdicate:  to give up a throne, right, power, claim, or responsibility
abomination:  anything greatly disliked; detestation
brusque: abrupt in manner; 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: someone or something that is not in it's correct historical or chronological time
nomenclature:  a set or system of names or terms by an individual or community; the names or terms comprising a set or system
expurgate: to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness; to amend by removing words deemed offensive
bellicose:  inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
gauche:  lacking social grace; awkward; crude; tactless
rapacious:  inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate
paradox: a self-contradictory and false proposition
conundrum:  anything that puzzles; a riddle whose answer involves a pun or play on words
anomaly:  someone or something that is abnormal or does not fit in; peculiarity; abnormality; exception
ephemeral: lasting a short time; short-lived
rancorous: full of or showing rancor (hatred)
churlish: boorish; rude; mean
precipitous: extremely steep

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