1. Abase: (v) to lower; to put or bring down; degrade
2. Abdicate: (v) to give up a throne, right, power, claim, or responsibility
3. Abomination: (n) anything greatly disliked; detestation
4. Brusque: (adj) abrupt in manner; rough
5. Saboteur: (n) a person who commits or practices sabotage
6. Debauchery: (n) excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance
7. Proliferate: (v) to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively
8. Anachronism: (n) someone or something that is not in it's correct historical or chronological time
9. Nomenclature: (n) a set or system of names or terms by an individual or community; the names or terms comprising a set or system
10. Expurgate: (v) to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness; to amend by removing words deemed offensive
11. Bellicose: (adj) inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
12. Gauche: (adj) lacking social grace; awkward; crude; tactless
13. Rapacious: (adj) inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate
14. Paradox: (n) a self-contradictory and false proposition
15. Conundrum: (n) anything that puzzles; a riddle whose answer involves a pun or play on words
16. Anomaly: (n) someone or something that is abnormal or does not fit in; peculiarity; abnormality; exception
17. Ephemeral: (adj) lasting a short time; short-lived
18. Rancorous: (adj) full of or showing rancor (hatred)
19. Churlish: (adj) boorish; rude; mean
20. Precipitous: (adj) extremely steep
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