abase: (verb) to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation; humble, degrade; archaic
abdicate: (verb) (used w/o object) to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in formal manner; (used w/ object) to give up or renounce(authorities, duties, an office, etc.), especially in a voluntary, public or formal manner
abomination: (noun) anything greatly disliked or abhorred; intense aversion or loathing, detestation, vile, shameful
brusque: (adj.) abrupt in manner, blunt, rough
saboteur: (noun) a person who commits or practices sabotage
debauchery: (noun) excessive indugence in sensual pleasures, intemperance; archaic
proliferate: (verb) to increase or growby multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division; spread rapidly, excessively
anachronism: (noun) error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc. is assigned a date or period other than the correct one
nomenclature: (noun) a set or system of names or terms comprising of a set or system
expurgate: (verb) to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness
bellicose: (adj.) inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent
gauche: (adj.) lacking social grace, sensitivity or acuteness; awkward
rapacious: (adj.) given to seizing for plunder or satisfaction of greed; ravenous, avaricious
paradox: (noun) a self-contradictory and false proposition
conundrum: (noun) a riddle, the answer to which ivolves a pun or play on words
anomaly: (noun) an incongruity or inconsistency
ephemeral: (noun) short-lived, transitory
rancorous: (adj.) full of showing rancor; bitter, acrimonious
churlish: (adj.) rude. peasant-like, grumpy, vulgar, morose
precipitous: (adj.) extremely or impassably steep; abrupt. perpendicular
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