Vocabulary 4

Accolade: An award or privilege granted for special honor.
- You can receive an accolade for a GPA above a 3.0.

Acerbity: A sharp bitterness.
- The acerbity in her speech can put off almost anyone

Attrition: The action of weakening by attack or pressure.
- When both sides were unable to advance, the war became a matter of attrition.

Bromide: An unoriginal idea or remark.
- He always comes up with bromide ideas.

Chauvinist: A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
- American chauvinists usually own a lot of American flags.

Chronic: Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.
- The elderly woman suffered from the chronic osteoporosis.

Expound: Present and explain systematically and in detail.
- He began to expound in great detail his plans for the nation.

Factionalism: The splitting of a group into factions; Conflict between factions
- Some kids have to deal with factionalism within their family.

Immaculate: Perfectly clean and tidy.
- My room is never immaculate.

Imprecation: A spoken curse.
- The witch muttered imprecations as she worked.

Ineluctable: Unable to be resisted or avoided.
- Dessert is very ineluctable.

Mercurial: Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
- Everyone stayed away from him because hi temper was mercurial.

Palliate: To make less severe or unpleasant.
- The medical staff used strong narcotics to palliate the terminally ill patients pain.

Protocol: The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions.
-When filing a complaint at work you must us the protocol.

Resplendent: Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.
- The tiny hummingbird was resplendent.

Stigmatize: Describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.
- She was afraid she would be stigmatized if people found out she smokes cigarettes.

Sub rosa: Happening or done in secret.
- The meeting was held sub rosa.

Vainglory: Inordinate pride in oneself or one's achievements; excessively vain.
- He has such vainglory when talking about himself.

Vestige: A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
- There was a vestige about these footprints.

Volition: The faculty or power of using one's will.
- He decided to work out under his own volition.