vocab 6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

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

brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

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

nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

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; nounanything 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 deliberations