Vocabulary #3

Accolade: any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.

Acerbity: sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste. :It's a strange experience to read a critic best known for extreme acerbity writing about a subject he loves.

Attrition:a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Ourclub has had a high rate of attrition because so many membershave moved away.

Bromide: a person who is platitudinous and boring.:Some bromide about the literary life being as unfair as the normal one may have to do.

chauvinist :a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.:The chauvinist soldier has much pride for his country.

Chronic:constant; habitual; inveterate:Rising consumer demand has already resulted in chronic widespread electricity shortages.

Expound:to set forth or state in detail:We need not expound on this doctrine in great detail, as it plainly does not apply here.

factionalism:of a faction or factions ,self-interested:Frequent internal splits have produced great factionalism.

immaculate:free from fault or flaw; free from errors:Protecting your car from the weather as much as possible will ensure it remains immaculate.

imprecation:the act of imprecating; cursing.: Then came an imprecation, and a match was struck and the study was flooded with yellow light.

ineluctable:incapable of being evaded; inescapable:And his poems were easy to memorize, with their ineluctable meters and never-failing rhymes.

mercurial:animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.:His yanking of funding from the production seems mercurial, even by his own fabled standards, and a bit churlish.

palliate:to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.:Medicine's goal is not only to cure or palliate disease.

protocol: the customs and regulations dealing with diplomaticformality, precedence, and etiquette.:His work led him to develop a petri-dish protocol for testing whether a substance can cause such mutations.

resplendent:shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid:It is a precious vessel set with jewels, and so resplendent as to eclipse the lights of the hall.

stigmatize:to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:Establish a climate that encourages and does not stigmatize healthy eating and physical activity.

sub rosa: confidentially; secretly; privately.: I held the meeting in sub rosa.

vainglory:excessive elation or pride: In performing their funerals, they show no state or vainglory.

vestige: a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is nolonger present or in existence:It has tiny rounded ears and the mere vestige of a tail.

volition:the act of willing, choosing, or resolving:These people fail to pause, to consider the situation, options and consequences before exercising volition.