Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Vocab #4

Accolade(n.) An award or privilege granted for special honor.
Acerbity(n.) Sharp bitterness.
Attrition(n.) The action of weakening by attack or pressure.
Bromide(n.)  An unoriginal idea or remark.
Chauvinist(n.) A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
Chronic(adj.) On going.
Expound(v.)  Present and explain systematically and in detail.
Factionalism(n.) Relating or belonging to a faction.
Immaculate(adj.) Perfectly clean and tidy.
Imprecation(n.) A spoken curse.
Ineluctable(adj.) Unable to be resisted or avoided.
Mercurial(adj.) Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.
Palliate(v.) To make less severe or unpleasant.
Protocol(n.) The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic
occasions.
Resplendent(adj.) Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.
Stigmatize(v.) Describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.
Sub rosa(adv.) Happening or done in secret.
Vainglory(n.) Inordinate pride in oneself or one's achievements; excessively vain.
Vestige(n.) A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
Volition(n.) The faculty or power of using one's will.

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