Vocab #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"Do not abase your siblings."

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
"She abdicated her throne to the son of her uncle."

abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
"He was an awful person, such an abomination."

brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
"My conversation with her was brusque, she had nowhere to go but left."

saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine 
subversive organization who tries to help a potential invade
"We read "The Saboteur" sophomore year."

debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
"I will not include myself in any debauchery."
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
"The water hole proliferated the animal's population" 
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
"The time traveler was an anachronism."


nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
"Is Latin a nomenclature?"


expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
"I expurgated the sentence of my essay, it was unnecessary."


bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight



gauche - adj. lacking social polish


rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey


paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself


conundrum - noun a difficult problem


anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule


ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form


rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment


churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish


precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation