Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Vocab #8

Abase: to reduce or lower; degrade
Abdicate: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, responsibility
Abomination: something greatly disliked or abhorred
Brusque: abrupt in manner
Saboteur: a person who commits or practices sabotage
Debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance
Proliferate: to grow or produce by multiplication of parts
Anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
Nomenclature: a set of system of names or terms, as those used in a particular science or art, by an individual or community.
Expurgate: to amend by removing words or passages
Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile
Gauche: lacking social grace; awkward; crude
Rapacious: giving 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
Anomaly: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form
Ephemeral: lasting a very short time
Rancorous: full of or showing malicious resentfulness or hostility
Churlish: rude
Precipitous: happening in a very quick and sudden way

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