SENTENCES POSTED ON DEAR OPHELIA POST
abase: to reduce or lower in rank, office etc
abdicate: to give up or renounce
abomination: anything greatly disliked or detested
brusque: rude, blunt, rough
saboteur: a person that practices sabotage
debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
proliferate: to grow or produce
anachronism: someone or something that belongs in an earlier
time period
nomenclature: names or terms used in a particular set or system
expurgate: to make appropriate by removing words/passages that
are offensive; to censor
bellicose: aggressive, hostile, ready to fight
gauche: lacking social grace; awkward
rapacious: satisfaction of greed
paradox: a proposition that seems contradictory, but may be true
conundrum: a riddle, puzzle
anomaly: someone or something abnormal,
ephemeral: short-lived, lasting a brief moment
rancorous: someone who is full of resentment/ hate
churlish: rude, vulgar behavior
precipitous: very steep, dangerously high
