Vocabulary

to formally relinquish (power)

• abdicate

• ignominious

• inanition

• nudnik

brief; short lived; temporary

• bloviate

• paradox

• impugn

• transitory

humiliating

• juxtapose

• ignominious

• castigate

• vicarious

not easily embarrassed or ashamed

• unabashed

• innervate

• masticate

• vacillate

severe punishment

• ignominious

• innervate

• paradox

• castigate

massive, solid, uniform

• superfluous

• monolithic

• didactic

• garrulous

side by side comparison

• inanition

• paradox

• juxtapose

• impugn

person who is a bore or nuisance

• nudnik

• bloviate

• didactic

• innervate

bitter denunciation, attack, or criticism

• abdicate

• vicarious

• diatribe

• castigate

departing from a conventional or established norm

• diatribe

• eccentric

• insolent

• nudnik