VOCABULARY LIST 4

• Accolade:  any award, honor, or laudatory notice.
• His new novel received an accolade that described it to be one of the best-written novels in the world.
• Acerbity:  sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste; harshness or severity, as of temper or expression.
• Her passionate hatred for abortion was seen in her acerbity as she presented her project to the class.
• Attrition:  a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength.
• The football team has had a high rate of attrition in the past because our former coach verbally abused the players.
• Bromide:  a dull or hackneyed saying or person.
• The elderly gentleman in the suit and tie proved to be quite the bromide at the conference for almost putting everybody to sleep with his dry personality.
• Chauvinist:  a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory;  a person who believes one gender is superior to the other.
• I agree that when a man demands a sandwich from a woman on a daily basis, he sounds like an arrogant, male chauvinist.
• Chronic:  constant; habitual; inveterate. 
• Chronic back-pain can only be treated with numerous medications and trips to a specialist.
• Expound:  to explain in detail; interpret.
• After listening to his extremely complicated lecture on cancerous cells, I stayed behind after class to ask the professor to expound his concepts; so that I could better understand them.
• Factionalism: of or pertaining to the practice of a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like.
• In certain countries, factionalism dominates various political movements that involve numerous political parties with their representatives.
• Immaculate:  free from fault or flaw; free from errors.
• When she set foot into the building, she was amazed by the pearly, immaculate floors.
• Imprecation:  a curse; malediction.
• After stealing something from the sacred temple, an imprecation was set upon the ignorant treasure hunters.
• Ineluctable:  incapable of being evaded; inescapable;  irrevocable, unpreventable, unstoppable, inexorable.
• Journeying further and further into a technological world is ineluctable.
• Mercurial:  changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic.
• In nature's ways of "fight or flight," the more mercurial creatures would chose "flight."
• Palliate:  to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
• Usually before patients pass away, they are taken to a certain section of the hospital where nurses and doctors palliate them before their time comes.
• Protocol:  the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
• When a fire alarm interrupts valuable time in the classroom, it is only protocol to file quietly into the fields in an orderly manner.
• Resplendent:  shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid.
• The graduating class looked resplendent lined up in their shiny caps and gowns.
• Stigmatize:  to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon.
• It is racist to stigmatize African Americans to be prone to criminality simply by the color of their skin.
• Sub rosa:  confidentially; secretly; privately.
• The President must speak to his advisers in sub rosa before an official decision can be made. 
• Vainglory:  excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities, etc.; boastful vanity.
• The young athlete boasted in vainglory of how great he was until he was discovered on the third string of his team.
• Vestige:  a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence.
• The famous Coliseum in Rome serves as a major vestige for the ancient Roman empire.
• Volition:  the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing.
• It was my volition to walk away from the conflict before it was blown out of proportion.