Vocabulary #6

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

-She abased his self esteem.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

- Sarah abdicated her position of queen.
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

- That is an abomination to mankind.
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

-My coach has a brusque attitude towards the team. 
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

-She was a saboteur throught the whole situation. 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

- The reunion was a debauchery.
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

-The story proliferated in sales very quickly. 
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 Monalisa is an anachronism. 
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

- Scientific words were created as a nomenclature for easy communication. 
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

- You should expurgated this sentence from your essay. 
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

- The dog always had a bellicose look on it's face.
gauche - adj. lacking social polish

- She has gauche manners. 
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

- Her essay is very paradox.
conundrum - noun a difficult problem

-This has caused me a huge conundrum.
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

- I love the anomaly of life.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

-Their life was ephemeral. 
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment

-She is rancorous in her attitude with him. 
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly;rude and boorish

-She was churlish all the time to her cousins. 
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices;extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberations

-The groceries were done precipitously well.