Voabulary #4

1) Accolade: An award or privilege granted for special honor.

I receive an accolade every sports season for a high GPA.

2) Acerbity: A sharp bitterness.

Her response was acerbity towards the person she was talking to.

3) Attrition: The action of weakening by attack or pressure.

I was trying to wear down my sister with attrition.
 
4) Bromide: An unoriginal idea or remark.

My sister's responses are bromide.

5) Chauvinist: A person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.
Some people are great chauvinists and they are very devoted.

6) Chronic: On going.

My friend has chronic hiccups.

7) Expound: Present and explain systematically and in detail.

My teacher told us to expound on our research about the Chinese.

8) Factionalism: Relating or belonging to a faction.

I have seen factionalisms around my neighborhood.

9) Immaculate: Perfectly clean and tidy.

My room is completely immaculate.

10) Imprecation: A spoken curse.

The witch told us of an imprecation about our fore fathers.

11) Ineluctable: Unable to be resisted or avoided.

Hiding from the police is pretty much ineluctable.

12) Mercurial: Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind.

My family is mercurial to my sister when she is unstable.

13) Palliate: To make less severe or unpleasant.

The doctors try to palliate their patients illnesses to help them feel better.

14) Protocol: The official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic
occasions.
The protocol is top secret for the president.

15) Resplendent: Attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous.

Her green dress is resplendent under the bright lights.

16) Stigmatize: Describe or regard as worthy of disgrace or great disapproval.

Her attitude is stigmatize and embarrassing.

17) Sub rosa: Happening or done in secret.

We made the decision sub rosa.

18) Vainglory: Inordinate pride in oneself or one's achievements; excessively vain.

He had such vainglory when he talked to people about himself.

19) Vestige: A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.

There was a vestige about the documents my mom was hiding.

20) Volition: The faculty or power of using one's will.

Without conscious volition she backed into her office.