Vocab #8

1. Abase: to reduce or lower in rank, office etc.

2. Abdicate: to give up or renounce.

3. Abomination: anything greatly disliked or detested.

4. Brusque: rude, blunt, rough.

5. Saboteur: a person that practices sabotage.

6. Debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

7. Proliferate: to grow or produce.

8. Anachronism: someone or something that belongs in an earlier time period.

9. Nomenclature: names or terms used in a particular set or system.

10. Expurgate: to make appropriate by removing words/passages that are. offensive; to censor.

11. Bellicose: aggressive, hostile, ready to fight.

12. Gauche: lacking social grace;  awkward.

13. Rapacious: satisfaction of greed.

14. Paradox: a proposition that seems contradictory, but may be true.

15. Conundrum: a riddle, puzzle.

16. Anomaly: someone or something abnormal. 

17. Ephemeral: short-lived, lasting a brief moment.

18. Rancorous: someone who is full of resentment/ hate.

19. Churlish: rude, vulgar behavior.

20. Precipitous: very steep, dangerously high.