Kemp Vocab 1

  1. abjure (verb): to renounce under oath; foreswear; to recant or give up

  2. abrogate (verb): to abolish or do away with; annul, especially by authority

  3. belie (verb): to picture falsely; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict

  4. bellicose (adj.): warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious

  5. implacable (adj.): not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable

  6. churlish (adj.): having a bad disposition; difficult to work with

  7. deciduous (adj.): shed or lost at the end of a growth season

  8. deleterious (adj.): having a harmful effect; injurious

  9. enervate (verb): to weaken or destroy strength or vitality; to deplete strength

  10. enfranchise (verb): to endow with rights of citizenship, esp. the right to vote

  11. facetious (adj.) playfully jocular; humorous

  12. fatuous (adj.): vacuously, smugly and unconsciously foolish; delusive

  13. promulgate (verb): to declare, publish, or proclaim (e.g. a law)

  14. gauche (adj.): lacking social polish; tactless

  15. hegemony (noun): predominant influence of a state, region, or group over others

  16. bifurcation (noun): the division of something into two branches or parts

  17. impeach (verb): to make an accusation against; to challenge the validity of; to try to discredit

  18. incognito (adj.): with one’s identity disguised, or concealed

  19. lugubrious (adj.): mournful, dismal or gloomy, esp. to a ludicrous degree

  20. metamorphosis (noun): a transformation in character, condition, or function

  21. invective (noun): scorn or insulting expression; violent denunciation

  22. nihilism (noun): philosophy that rejects all morals, values, institutions or beliefs

  23. obsequious (adj.): full of or demonstrating servile compliance; fawning

  24. oligarchy (noun): government by a few, esp. a faction or families

  25. parabola (noun): a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and plane parallel to an  element of the curve

  26. paradigm (noun): a pattern or model

  27. quasar (noun): an extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times greater than our entire galaxy

  28. quotidian (adj.): recurring daily; commonplace

  29. recapitulate (verb): to repeat in concise form

  30. reciprocal (adj.): interchanged, given, or owed to each other