Vocab List 3

1. Accolade-any award or honor. He graduated with honors and several other accolades.
2. Acerbity-sourness or harshness or severity. His acerbitous manner indicated that something was wrong with him.
3.Attrition-a recution in numbers, size, or strength. Many sports teams exspirience attrition as the year goes on.
4. Bromide-a person who is boring. He was very mcuh a bromide, he hardly ever did anything.
5. Chauvinist-a person who is greatly patriotic, especially military wise. The drill sergant liked the new recruits because several of them were chauvinists.
6. Chronic-constant, habitual. I often times suffer from chronic headaches.
7. Expound-to staed in detail. It started to make more sense as she expounded upon her previous statement.
8. Factionalism-idea of belief in factions. The teacher seperated the students by their GPA because he believed in factionalism.
9. Immaculate-free from stain, moral blemish, flaw. The immaculate student never got into trouble.
10. Imprecation-the act of cursing. His imprecation after stubbing his toe startled the child.
11. Ineluctable-unavoidable. The crimials demise was ineluctable and he was eventually cuaght.
12. Mercurial-volatile, fighty, erratic. His random mercurial movements were very frightening.
13. Palliate- to relieve without curing. The doctor did all she coould to palliate the burn victim.
14. Protocol-regulations dealing with diplomatic formalty. The senator wasn't like by his colleagues because of his frequent violations of protocol.
15. Resplendent-shining, gleaming, splendid. The childs trophy had a resplendent aura around it.
16. Stigmatize-to set a mark of disgrace or infamy upon. The book was stigmatized by critics and sold poorly.
17. Sub Rosa-secretly, privately. The detectives work was a sub rosa to his friends
18. Vainglory-excessive pride in one's own achievements. His conceited nature atributed to many of his vanglories.
19. Vestige-visible evidence of something no longer present. Without a known vestige of ancient elves,
I can't believe in it.
20. Volition- Act of willing, choosing. He redid his homework of his own volition.