Kemp Vocab 1

Abjure

To renounce under oath; foreswear; to recant or give up.

Abrogate

To abolish or do away with; annul, especially by authority.

Belie

To picture falsely; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict.

Bellicose

Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

Implacable

Not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable.

Churlish

Having a bad disposition; difficult to work with.

Deciduous

Shed or lost at the end of a growth season.

Deleterious

Having a harmful effect; injurious.

Enervate

To weaken or destroy strength or vitality; to deplete strength.

Enfranchise

To endow with rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote.

Facetious

Playfully jocular; humorous.

Fatuous

Vacuously, smugly and unconsciously foolish; delusive.

Promulgate

To declare, publish, or proclaim (e.g. a law).

Gauche

Lacking social polish; tactless.

Hegemony

Predominant influence of a state, region, or group over others.

Bifurcation

The division of something into two branches or parts.

Impeach

To make an accusation against; to challenge the validity of; to try to discredit.

Incognito

With one’s identity disguised, or concealed.

Lugubrious

Mournful, dismal or gloomy, especially to a ludicrous degree.

Metamorphosis

A transformation in character, condition, or function.

Invective

Scorn or insulting expression; violent denunciation.

Nihilism

Philosophy that rejects all morals, values, institutions or beliefs.

Obsequious

Full of or demonstrating servile compliance; fawning.

Oligarchy

Government by a few, especially a faction or families.

Parabola

A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve.

Paradigm

A pattern or model.

Quasar

An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times greater than our entire galaxy.

Quotidian

Recurring daily; commonplace.

Recapitulate

To repeat in concise form.

Reciprocal

Interchanged, given, or owed to each other.