1.  Abyss:

  • A deep pit, hollow,
  • A deep chasm, gulf or opening in earth’s surface
  • An immeasurable pit (formed out of a split or break) in a mountain,

Figurative Usage of the word Abyss:

  • After war, soldiers demonstrate a miserable moral abyss in the form of looting property, ravaging women and killing the soldiers and citizens of the vanquished land.

2. Acquiesce:

  • to accept something unwillingly,
  • to admit without heart, as if there were no other choice

Usage:

  • During company mergers, quite often the less profitable company has to acquiesce the terms and conditions of the more profitable one.
  • In life, it is a law to acquiesce to what we do not like or wish for.

 

3. Affable:

  • Anyone who is easy to approach,
  • Anyone who is pleasant to talk to.

Usage:

  • Professors because of their profound learning look aloof, but an interaction for a while with them will prove to anyone that more often than not, they are very affable.