Vocabulary #6

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.

1) Obsequious: Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

They were served by obsequious waiters.

2) Beatitude: Supreme blessedness.

You can receive beatitudes from God.

3) Bete noire: A person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads.

Hair cuts are my sisters bête noire.

4) Bode: To announce beforehand, or predict.

I want to bode the news of my wedding before it happens.



5) Dank: Disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.

The room was dank and hard to live in.
6) Ecumenical: Representing a number of different Christian churches; nondenominational.

The ecumenical council agreed to let women wear hats in church.

  
7) Fervid: Intensely enthusiastic or passionate, to an excessive degree.

She had such a fervid need for the new Jack Johnson CD.
8) Fetid: Smelling extremely unpleasant. 

His sweaty gym socks are fetid.

9) Gargantuan: Enormous.

Her birthday presents are gargantuan that they don't fit in the door.

10) Heyday: The period of a person's or thing's greatness success, popularity, or vigor.

Sarah's sophomore year was nothing but a year of heyday.

11) Incubus: Something that weighs upon or oppresses someone like a nightmare.

That movie we saw is an incubus for me.

12) Infrastructure: The basic structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

The team wanted to build an infrastructure, but needed more people to join their efforts.

13) Inveigle: Persuade to do something by means of flattery or deception.

He was always so inveigle with his words and smooth movements.

14) Kudos: Praise and honor received for an achievement.

My teacher awarded me kudos for passing my math test.

15) Lagniappe: Something given as a bonus or extra gift.

That extra boat is a lagniappe to the jet skies they received.

16) Prolix: Using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy.

The book is a long prolix with no real meaning.

17) Protégé: A person who is guided by an older more experienced person.

Luke is a protégé to Yoda in Star Wars.

18) Prototype: A first model of something.

The first Ford car invented was a prototype to improve upon.

19) Sycophant: A person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain
an advantage.

I am a sycophant to my coach, so I get more playing time in the game.

20) Tautology: The saying of the same thing twice in different words.


My English teacher uses tautology when he really wants us to understand something.

21) Truckle: To submit or behave obediently.

My cat will soon truckle to me after I teach him how.