vocab

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

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
They abdicated their jobs today
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 was an abomination
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
my dog is 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
The person was a saboteur 
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
He missed out on the panty raid debauchery 
proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
America has proliferated in the last 100 years
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
This bowl is an anachronism
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
the nomenclature of chemical compounds
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Many top secret files are expurgated
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
He took a bellicose stance
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
My gauche brother is annoying especially in public
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
The world is full of rapacious people
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
This sentence is a paradox
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
When I'm tied everything is a conundum
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
What a strange anomaly
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 could make so man jokes using this word in ephemerally
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
After the rancor was killed in Star Wars its owners became rancorous
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
My sister is always so churlish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation
The Ap classes were very precipitous with their homework over this weekend