VOCABULARY

A personal dictionary of the times: I wanted to be more specific in my reactions to current events. 

Aberrant - not normal, varying from the usual, bizarre, deviant

Abhorrent - that which inspires disgust and loathing; repugnant

Abnormal - not average, deviating from a standard, extreme or excessive

Abominable - repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome

Absurd - utterly or obviously senseless; illogical; contrary to all reason or common sense

Abuse - treat badly or injuriously; mistreat; use wrongly; rape or sexually assault

Abysmal - extremely or hopelessly bad or severe

Adverse - unfavorable or antagonistic in purpose or effect; being or acting in a contrary direction; opposing one's interests or desires

Aggravate - to make worse or more severe; to intensify anything evil, disorderly or troublesome

Aggressive - characterized by unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; menacing; spreading where not wanted

Alienate - to make hostile; to turn away or divert

Anarchy: a state of society without government or law; political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control; lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination; confusion and disorder

Annoy - disturb; bother; harass; harm; molest

Antagonistic - acting in opposition; hostile; unfriendly

Antagonize - to make hostile or unfriendly; to make an enemy of; to act in opposition to

Anti - against; opposite of; opposed

Antithesis - direct opposite; parts set in opposition or contrast

Appalling - causing dismay or horror

Archenemy - antagonist; adversary; foe; nemesis; opponent; devil

Arrogant - making claims or pretensions to superiority; overbearing; insolent

Asinine - unintelligent; senseless; moronic; witless; crass

Ass - a stupid or foolish person

Atrocious - extremely wicked, cruel or brutal; shockingly bad or tasteless; dreadful; abominable

Authoritarian - of or relating to a governmental or political system, principle, or practice in which individual freedom is held as completely subordinate to the power or authority of the state, centered either in one person or a small group that is not constitutionally accountable to the people.

Autocrat - a person invested with or claiming to exercise absolute authority not subject to restrictions.

Avaricious - characterized by greed; rapacious; desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to 

Awful - extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly: inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible: extremely dangerous or injurious 

Bad: not good in any manner or degree; having a wicked or evil character; morally reprehensible; inadequate; not satisfactory; injurious;  having a disastrous or detrimental effect; causing or characterized by discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; irritable or surly; more dangerous than usual; causing or resulting in disaster or severe damage or destruction; disobedient; disreputable; dishonorable; displaying a lack of skill or judgement; causing distress; unfavorable; dangerous; nor keeping with standard of behavior or conduct; obscene; having the character of a villain

Base: morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly; worthless; characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing

Beholden: under obligation; owing a debt; bound

Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile

Belligerent: aggressively hostile; given to waging war; of warlike character; bellicose

Besmirch: to soil or tarnish; to detract from the honor of

Betrayal: the act of exposing or delivering someone to an enemy through treachery or disloyalty; failure to keep or honor a promise, principle, cherished memory, etc.; violation of an existing trust causing serious harm

Bigot: a person who is intolerant or hateful toward people whose race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc., is different from the person's own

Bigoted: utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own

Bizarre: markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd

Blasphemy: irreverent behavior toward anything held sacred, priceless, etc.; profanity; impious utterance or action concerning sacred things

Blatant: brazenly obvious; flagrant; offensively noisy or loud; clamorous; tastelessly conspicuous

Blathering: foolish empty talk

Blitzkrieg: an overwhelming all-out attack; intensive bombing; swift vigorous barrage

Bloviate: to talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way; to speak a lot in an annoying manner as if you are important

Boast: to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself: to use vain, exaggerated or objectionable speech; brag

Boorish: unmannered; crude; insensitive

Bozo: a rude, obnoxious, or annoying person

Brazen: shameless; insolent

Brutal: cruel; savage; coarse; barbaric; brutish; beastly; vicious; monstrous

Brute: a brutal, insensitive, or crude person

Buffoon: a foolish undignified coarse person; a boor

Cacophony: dissonance; harsh or unpleasant mixture of sounds; meaningless noise

Cad: an ill-bred man, especially one who behaves in a dishonorable or irresponsible way toward women

Calamitous: causing great misfortune or serious injury; grievous affliction; disastrous; ruinous; devastating; catastrophic

Calumny: a false or malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something; defamation; slander

Cancer: any evil condition or thing that spreads destructively

Carnage: great damage; utter defeat, or chaos; the slaughter of a great number of people; massacre

Catastrophe: a sudden and widespread disaster; misfortune, mishap or failure; fiasco; cataclysm

Chaos: a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order

Chauvinist: a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist; a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory

Cheat: defraud; swindle; deceive; influence by fraud; deprive of something expected

Churlish: boorish; rude; stingy; mean; difficult to work with

Clueless: ignorant, unaware, or uninformed

Coarse: of inferior or faulty quality; common; base; vulgar; obscene; crude 

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