Vocabulary: Fall List 6 ❗️

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

-The 15 year old team's loss to the 13 year olds abased them. 
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

-After learning about his health, the president of the club abticated his position. 
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

-After embarassing his family, he was considered an abomination. 
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

-The kids who had already completed their tests were being brusque to the others still trying to take their tests. 
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

-In Tom and Jerry, Jerry is the saboteur of Tom's life. 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

-At bars, there's usually a lot of debaucheries. 
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

-The disease he had caused his bones to proliferate over the rest of his body. 
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

-In Indiana Jones, Jones is always looking for some type of anachronism. 
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

-His mom had came up with a nomenclature to punish him. 
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

-After writing the first draft, I went back and expurgated my essay. 
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

-After being told off for no reason at all, the man was bellicose towards the other man. 
gauche - adj. lacking social polish

-Because he was so gauche, nobody really made an effort to talk to him. 
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

-There are some millionares who are rapacious, then there are some who are very generuous. 
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

-The author got his point across by using various situations of paradox. 
conundrum - noun a difficult problem

-Deciding what college you want to go to can be sort of 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

-Many are judges as anomalies, but once you get to know them, they are actually the total opposite. 
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

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

-After being beat in the championship, the team was rancorous towards the winning team. 
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly;rude and boorish

-While watching the movie, the teenage kids were being churlish. 
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices;extremely steep; done with very great haste and without due deliberation

-He didn't check to see if the hill was precipitous before he went down it on his skateboard.