Vocabulary #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
* I dislike to cause abase on others, it doesn't make me feel any better, so I don't see the reason for it.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
* King Hamlet didn't abdicate his position, because it was taken from him.
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
*I would consider a mutation between a fly and a mosquito and abomination.
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
* When I am agitated I have a tendency to be brusque.
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
* My brother was the saboteur because he helped prank the teacher, which ended up with a bucket on her head.
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
* A debauchery would be like the teen parties that we see in the movies.
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
* The radish seeds that we did an experiment on proliferated faster than what I expected.
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
* An anachronism would be like a caveman in modern time.
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
* Nomenclature would be like naming the animals in a food web.
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
* Sometimes people have to edit their personal essays because they are expurgate.
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
* The bellicose students were ready to show their karate teacher that they have improved.
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
* Someone who doesn't know manners is considered gauche.
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
*Lions are rapacious since they kill other animals in order to live.
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
* Paradox is a contradicting statement like, bittersweet and wise fool.
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
* I would consider, not being able to make a decision on what you want to study a 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
* For a moment I wanted to study the anomaly of planets I even bought a telescope.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
* I ask myself why there is so many flies if they are supposed to be ephemeral.
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
* Rancorous is very similar to despising the difference is that one has accumulated hatred.
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
* I find it hard to be around people who are churlish.
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
* Running up a precipitous mountain is such a hassle, I am surprised that people don't fall off of it.