Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory
notice.
I received an accolade for playing on the varsity tennis team for four years.
Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
Attrition: a reduction or decrease in
numbers, size, or strength.
We had to make an attrition to the people invited to the party because we did not order enough food and drinks for everyone.
Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.
My dad is a bromide when he is around people he does not know.
Chauvinist: a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic,
especially one devoted to military glory.
My friends grandfather was chauvinist and had many artifacts in his
house that reminded him of the military and all of their glory.
Chronic: constant; habitual; inveterate
It is chronic in my English and government class to respond to a journal topic in the beginning of the period.
Expound: to set forth or state in detail
We had to expound the truth because she did not see herself that she was doing the wrong thing.
Factionalism: of a
faction or factions.
The class was big on factionalism and communicating and collaborating with others.
Immaculate: free from fault or flaw; free from
errors
She wanted to immaculate herself after all of the drama that she went through.
Imprecation: the act of imprecating; cursing.
We were forbidden from imprecation since we were near all of the little children.
Ineluctable: incapable
of being evaded; inescapable
The big castle in the middle of the island was ineluctable.
Mercurial: animated; lively; sprightly;
quick-witted.
The way she acted was mercurial and everyone around her would always laugh.
Palliate: to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate;
alleviate.
The aspirin palliated my headache.
Protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with
diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
The protocol is that you must wash your hands before you eat.
Resplendent: shining
brilliantly; gleaming; splendid
The meteor shower was absolutely resplendent.
Stigmatize: to set some mark of disgrace or
infamy upon
After betraying the team, the man was stigmatized in several ways.
Sub Rosa: confidentially; secretly;
privately.
The subject we had discussed was sub rosa and no one could know.
Vainglory: excessive elation or pride
Beowulf was overflowing with vainglory throughout his whole quest.
Vestige: a mark, trace, or
visible evidence of something that is nolonger present or in
existence
The new flower pot was a vestige of the old flower pot we had kept for over ten years.
Volition: the act of willing, choosing, or resolving
We had the will to volition all of our problems before taking the calculus test.
