重要単語Part４

・abject adj. [usu. before n] (formal)
1. terrible and without hope: abject poverty/ misery/ failure
2. without any pride or respect for yourself, self-abasing: an abject apology

・abdicate v.
1. [no obj.] to give up the position of being king or queen: In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated as German emperor.
2. [with obj.] to fail to perform (a responsibility or duty): The government was accused of abdicating its responsibility.

・adjudicate v.
1. (〜on/upon/in sth) to make a formal judgment on a disputed matter: A special subcommittee adjudicated on planning applications.
2. to act as a judge in a competition: Who is adjudicating at this year’s contest?

・incipient adj. [usu. before n] (formal) beginning to happen or develop: an incipient stage of AIDS; the incipient rebellion

・nascent adj. (formal) (of a process or organisation) beginning to exist; not yet fully developed: the nascent space industry; a nascent love (SYN: incipient)

・specious adj. superficially plausible, but actually wrong: a specious argument

・ineluctable adj. unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable: the ineluctable facts of history (SYN: unavoidable, inevitable)

・abate v. to become less intense or strong; to make sth less intense or strong: The storm showed no sign of abating; Steps are to be taken to abate pollution; abate a tax; abate his fury

・abase v. (usu. abase oneself) behave in a way that belittles or degrades sb: I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees.

・pernicious adj. having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way: the pernicious influences of the mass media