Vocabulary #8

1. Abase (verb): to lower in rank.
- When the employee did something wrong he was abased in his job responsibilities.
2. Abdicate (verb): to relinquish (especially power) formally.
- The King abdicated the thrown to the new Prince.
3. Abomination (noun): Anything greatly disliked, disgust.
- The monster is an abomination to the whole entire town, it destroys everything.
4. Brusque (adjective): blunt in speech, Abrupt in manner.
- Sally was being very brusque at the dinner party because her parents forced her to go.
5. Saboteur (noun): one who commits sabotage.
- The ghosts in horror movies are always the saboteurs.
6. Debauchery (noun): extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures.
- Getting into the hot tub after a long day can be a great debauchery.
7. Proliferate (Verb): to cause to grow or develop rapidly.
- Going to preschool allows children to proliferate, at early stages in education.
8. Anachronism (noun): The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
- Many brands use anachronism in their names.
9. Nomenclature (Noun): name designation.
- At birth your mother is asked to give you a name, which is nomenclature.
10. Expurgate (verb): To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material.
- Editors expurgate books before they allow authors to publish their work.
11. Bellicose (adjective): Hostile, or warlike manner.
- People with anger issues are very bellicose.
12. Gauche (Adjective): lacking social grace.
- People become uncomfortable when they are gauche at places they aren't familiar with.
13. Rapacious (adjective): greedy, taking by force.
- On Christmas, some children become very rapacious.
14. Paradox (noun): A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
- Paradox's are used by many authors to create a more unique style to their writing.
15. Conundrum (noun): a puzzle or difficult riddle, a dilemma.
- Figuring out the Chemistry equation was quite a conundrum for the students.
16. Anomaly (noun): One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify.
- Hamlet is an anomaly, he acts very differently with certain people, which is difficult to classify.
17. Ephemeral (noun): Marked by a brief amount of time.
- The sunset only lasts for an ephemeral amount of time at night.
18. Rancorous (adjective): full of rancor, unforgiveness, bitterness.
- The old lady was rancorous towards her sister, after they had a falling out years before.
19. Churlish (Adjective): difficult to work with.
- Some people can be considered churlish, because they never get along with anyone.
20. Precipitous (adjective): impassably steep.
- When backpacking there is no way to avoid the precipitous mountains in front of your path.