Monday, August 27, 2012

Vocabulary Fall List #3

Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice
Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
Attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength
Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.
Chauvinist: a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
Chronic: constant; habitual; inveterate:
Expound: to set forth or state in detail:
Factionalism: of a faction or factions.
Immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from errors
Imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing.
Ineluctable: incapable of being evaded; inescapable
Mercurial: animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
Palliate:to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
Resplendent: shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid
Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon
Sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately.
Vainglory: excessive elation or pride
Vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence
Volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving

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