Tuesday, September 10, 2013

vocabulary #4

1.Accolade: award, honor, laudatory notice
2.Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste
3.Attrition: a reduction or decrease in numbers, size or strength
4.Bromide: flat, dull remark
5.Chauvinist: person aggressively and blindly patriotic
6.Chronic: constant, habitual
7.Expound: state in detail, explain, and interpret 
8.Factionalism: practice of a faction (group, clique within larger group)
9.Immaculate: free from spot, pure, perfect
10.Imprecation: curse, malediction
11.Ineluctable: incapable of being escaped, ignored or avoided
12.Mercurial: changeable
13.Palliate: to relieve, alleviate  
14.Protocol: regulations and customs pertaining to diplomatic formality, etiquette
15.Resplendent: shining, gleaming
16.Stigmatize: to set a mark of disgrace, brand, and stigma upon something/someone
17.sub rosa: confidentially, secretly, and privately
18.Vainglory: vain, excessive pride over one’s achievements
19.Vestige: surviving evidence or remainder that is no longer present
20.Volition: exercise of willing, choosing, resolving, etc.

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