Monday, October 14, 2013

Vocabulary #8

abase: to reduce or lower
abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility
abomination: intense aversion or loathing; detestation
brusque: rough, abrupt in manner
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: the names or terms comprising a set or system.
expurgate: to amend by removing words, passages
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: anything that puzzles.
anomaly: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. An odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality.
ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory
rancorous: full of or showing bitterness.
churlish: like a churl; boorish; rude
precipitous: extremely or impassably steep

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