abuse: implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language: charged her husband with verbal ~.


vituperation: implies fluent and sustained abuse: subjected his aide to a torrent of ~.      洪流


invective: implies a comparable vehemence but suggests greater verbal and rhetorical skill and may apply to public denunciation: a politician known for his blistering ~.      (denounce本身表示公开批判public condemnation,如stood and denounced the war站起来公开谴责战争)    （blistering三个意思 1言辞激烈，a blistering attack激烈抨击 2酷热，a blistering July day七月一个大热天 3速度快，Sharon Wild set a blistering pace to take the lead莎伦·怀尔德跑得飞快，在最前面）


obloquy: suggests defamation and consequent shame or disgrace: silently endured the ~ of his former friend.


scurrility: implies viciousness of attack and coarseness or foulness of language: a debate that was  not an exchange of ideas but an exercise in ~.


billingsgate: implies practiced fluency and variety of profane or obscene abuse: a ~ that would make a drunken sailor blush.  （profane亵渎，指宗教或精神方面不尊敬，如profane language亵渎的语言，sacrilegious意思相同但语气更重）


abuse辱骂: 表示说话人愤怒，语言冷酷，vituperate也是辱骂: 表示连续不断的辱骂，invective公开痛骂: 同样强烈，但更有语言修辞技巧，可表示公开谴责，obloquy诋毁: 使人丧失名誉，承受耻辱，scurrility恶毒: 恶毒(vicious恶毒是virtuous反义词)的攻击，语言肮脏粗野，billingsgate咒骂: 亵渎下流地大肆(fluent流利，内容多，variety多样，种类多)辱骂


记忆方法: 1) 首字母AIVBOS重组成SOB啜泣和VIA通过，通过辱骂使人啜泣<==辱骂

               2) 辱骂的意思是强烈谴责不满mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval.